gbdfed (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

gbdfed – GTK-based BDF font editor

SYNOPSIS

gbdfed [options] [fonts …]

DESCRIPTION

gbdfed lets you interactively create new bitmap font files or modify existing ones. It allows editing multiple fonts and multiple glyphs, it allows cut and paste operations between fonts and glyphs and editing font properties. gbdfed can import Metafont PK/GF fonts, Han Bitmap Font Format (HBF) fonts, Linux console fonts (PSF, CP, and EGA/VGA) fonts, Sun VF fonts, OpenType/TrueType (OTF/TTF) fonts, or grab a font from the X server (when running under X11). gbdfed can export PSF2 Linux console fonts and HEX fonts (see online help).

gbdfed works on X Window System Version 11 (X11), Release 5 or 6, with GTK+ 2.6 or greater. It may work on Windows, but hasn’t been tested yet.

OPTIONS

gbdfed accepts the following command line arguments:

-nc

do not preserve comments (by default, gbdfed automatically collects comments that are saved with the font).

-nu

do not preserve unencoded glyphs (by default, gbdfed preserves the unencoded glyphs).

-nm

do not make metrics corrections (by default, gbdfed attempts to make metrics corrections automatically).

-np

do not pad character-cell bitmaps (by default, gbdfed pads character-cell bitmaps with 0’s to the cell dimensions when the font is saved).

-bp

allow blank pages (by default, gbdfed skips blank pages).

-ed

do not present the "Really Exit?" dialog (by default, this dialog always presented).

-ps n

set default point size (if unspecified, gbdfed sets it to 12).

-hres n

set default horizontal resolution.

-vres n

set default vertical resolution.

-res n

set both default resolutions (if unspecified, gbdfed sets both horizontal and vertical resolution to that of display, (e.g. 90×90 dpi for Sun workstations).

-sp s

set the default font spacing ("p" for Proportional, "m" for Monowidth, or "c" for Character Cell).

-eol e

set the default end-of-line type ("u" for Unix LF, "d" for DOS/Windows CRLF, or "m" for Macintosh CR). CR)

-g glyph-code

specify the initial glyph code at startup. The glyph code can be specified in decimal, octal, or hex. Octal numbers must be prefixed with the digit 0, and hex numbers must be prefixed with one of: 0x, 0X, U+, U-,