bdftosnf
reads a Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) font from
the specified file (or from standard input if no file is
specified) and writes an X11 Server Natural Format (SNF) font to
standard output.
NOTE:bdftosnf has been replaced by
bdftopcf(X)
in the X11R5 release;
SNF files are only used for backwards compatibility.
Options
-i
inhibits the normal computation of ink metrics. When a font has
glyph images which do not fill the bitmap image (that is, the ``on''
pixels do not 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 behavior.
-l
sets the font bit order to least significant bit first.
The leftmost bit on the screen will be in the lowest valued bit in
each unit.
-L
sets the font byte order to least significant byte first. All multi-byte data
in the file (metrics, bitmaps, and so forth) will be written least
significant byte first.
-m
sets the font bit order to most significant bit first.
Bits for each glyph will be placed in this order; that is, the leftmost bit
on the screen will be in the highest valued bit in each unit.
-M
sets the font byte order to most significant byte first. All multi-byte data
in the file (metrics, bitmaps, and so forth) will be written most
significant byte first.
-p#
sets the font glyph padding. Each glyph in the font will have each scanline
padded in to a multiple of # bytes, where # is 1, 2, 4 or 8.
-t
converts 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.
-u#
sets the font scanline unit. When the font bit order is different from the
font byte order, the scanline unit # describes what unit of data (in
bytes) are to be swapped; the unit # can be 1, 2 or 4 bytes.
-w
prints warnings if the character bitmaps have bits
set to one outside of their defined widths.
-W
prints warnings for characters with an encoding of
-1; the default ignores such characters.
-obdf file
specifies the BDF font filename that
should be compiled to a PCF font.
If a filename is not specified, standard input is read.