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.IX Title "BDF2GDFONT 1p"
.TH BDF2GDFONT 1p 2024-01-10 "perl v5.38.2" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH NAME
bdf2gdfont.pl \- Convert X11 "BDF" fonts into a loadable font format for GD.
.SH SYNOPSIS
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\&  % bdf2gdfont.pl courR12.bdf > courR12.fnt
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.SH DESCRIPTION
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
This script converts BDF-style X11 font files into a format that can
be loaded by the GD module using the GD::Font\->\fBload()\fR method.  There
are a number of ways to obtain BDF fonts.
.IP "1. The font is already present on your system." 4
.IX Item "1. The font is already present on your system."
Some BDF fonts can be found in the standard X11R6 distribution. This
script will automatically uncompress gzipped font files if their
extension ends with .gz (the gunzip program must be on your path).
.IP "2. From a font server." 4
.IX Item "2. From a font server."
The "fstobdf" utility, a standard X11 utility, will read a named font
from the font server of your choice and return it in BDF format.  You
can pipe it to bdf2gdfont.pl:
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\&  fstobdf \-s fontserverhost:7100 \-fn 8x16 | bdf2gdfont.pl > newfont.fnt
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Use xlsfonts to find out what fonts are available.  Most fonts will
have long names like
\&\-B&H\-LucidaTypewriter\-Bold\-R\-Normal\-Sans\-18\-180\-75\-75\-M\-110\-ISO8859\-10.
.IP "3. Using the pcf2bdf utility." 4
.IX Item "3. Using the pcf2bdf utility."
Some fonts are only available in PCF (compiled) format.  To obtain
these, you can either turn on a font server and follow recipe (2), or
use TAGA Nayuta's pcf2bdf utility. This utility is available from
http://www.tsg.ne.jp/GANA/S/pcf2bdf/ (page is in Japanese, but you can
find the download link).
.SS Limitations
.IX Subsection "Limitations"
This font converter only works with fixed-width fonts.  If used with a
TrueType or proportional font it will die with an error message.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
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GD
.SH AUTHOR
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Lincoln Stein <lstein@cshl.org>, heavily adapted from bdftogd from
Jan Pazdziora <adelton@fi.muni.cz>.
.PP
Copyright (c) 2004 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
.PP
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.