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     BDFTOPCF(1)	X Version 11 (Release 6.6)	   BDFTOPCF(1)

     NAME
	  bdftopcf - convert X font from Bitmap Distribution Format to
	  Portable Compiled Format

     SYNOPSIS
	  bdftopcf [ -pn ] [ -un ] [ -m ] [ -l ] [ -M ] [ -L ] [ -t ]
	  [ -i ] [ -o outputfile ] fontfile.bdf

     DESCRIPTION
	  Bdftopcf is a font compiler for the X server and font
	  server.  Fonts in Portable Compiled Format can be read by
	  any architecture, although the file is structured to allow
	  one particular architecture to read them directly without
	  reformatting.	 This allows fast reading on the appropriate
	  machine, but the files are still portable (but read more
	  slowly) on other machines.

     OPTIONS
	  -pn	  Sets the font glyph padding.	Each glyph in the font
		  will have each scanline padded in to a multiple of n
		  bytes, where n is 1, 2, 4 or 8.

	  -un	  Sets the font scanline unit.	When the font bit
		  order is different from the font byte order, the
		  scanline unit n describes what unit of data (in
		  bytes) are to be swapped; the unit i can be 1, 2 or
		  4 bytes.

	  -m	  Sets the font bit order to MSB (most significant
		  bit) first.  Bits for each glyph will be placed in
		  this order; i.e., the left most bit on the screen
		  will be in the highest valued bit in each unit.

	  -l	  Sets the font bit order to LSB (least significant
		  bit) first.  The left most bit on the screen will be
		  in the lowest valued bit in each unit.

	  -M	  Sets the font byte order to MSB first.  All multi-
		  byte data in the file (metrics, bitmaps and
		  everything else) will be written most significant
		  byte first.

	  -L	  Sets the font byte order to LSB first.  All multi-
		  byte data in the file (metrics, bitmaps and
		  everything else) will be written least significant
		  byte first.

	  -t	  When this option is specified, bdftopcf will convert
		  fonts into "terminal" fonts when possible.  A
		  terminal font has each glyph image padded to the
		  same size; the X server can usually render these
		  types of fonts more quickly.

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     BDFTOPCF(1)	X Version 11 (Release 6.6)	   BDFTOPCF(1)

	  -i	  This option inhibits the normal computation of ink
		  metrics.  When a font has glyph images which do not
		  fill the bitmap image (i.e., the "on" pixels don't
		  extend to the edges of the metrics) bdftopcf
		  computes the actual ink metrics and places them in
		  the .pcf file; the -t option inhibits this
		  behaviour.

	  -o output-file-name
		  By default bdftopcf writes the pcf file to standard
		  output; this option gives the name of a file to be
		  used instead.

     SEE ALSO
	  X(1)

     AUTHOR
	  Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium

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