NAME

psf2bdf - convert part or all of a PSF Font file to an X11 BDF.

SYNOPSIS

psf2bdf [--first=FIRST] [--last=LAST] [--256] [--fontname=NAME] [--defchar=INDEX] [--descent=VALUE] [--codepage=CODEPAGE] [--iso10646] [INPUTFILE [OUTPUTFILE]]

DESCRIPTION

psf2bdf saves some or all characters from a .PSF font to an X11-format BDF font file. The resulting file should then be tidied up in an editor such as xmbdfed(1) before being installed.

OPTIONS

--codepage=x: Extracts only the characters in the given codepage (requires the source PSF file to have a Unicode directory). Any characters in the codepage not present in the source font are replaced by blanks. The codepage can be specified by number or name; see psfpages(1) for a list of acceptable codepage names.
--first=n: Extracts characters starting at the specified character.
--last=n: Extracts characters up to and including the specified character.
--256: Equivalent to --first=0 --last=255.
--fontname=name: Sets the XLFD name of the font being output.
--descent=n: Sets the descent (pixels between the character baseline and the bottom of the character cell). If this is not entered it is assumed to be 1/4 of the character height.
--defchar=n: Sets the number of the default character to use.
--iso10646: If this option is present and the source file has a Unicode directory, the font will encode the ID of each character as its Unicode position. Otherwise the character's ID is equal to its position in the file.

If a codepage and a range of characters are both specified, the range is applied to the subset of characters extracted by the codepage.

BUGS

The BDF needs tidying up after generation, as mentioned above.

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