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BDF2GDFONT(1p)                   User Contributed Perl Documentation                  BDF2GDFONT(1p)

NAME
       bdf2gdfont.pl - Convert X11 "BDF" fonts into a loadable font format for GD.

SYNOPSIS
         % bdf2gdfont.pl courR12.bdf > courR12.fnt

DESCRIPTION
       This script converts BDF-style X11 font files into a format that can be loaded by the GD
       module using the GD::Font->load() method.  There are a number of ways to obtain BDF fonts.

       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).

       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:

             fstobdf -s fontserverhost:7100 -fn 8x16 | bdf2gdfont.pl > newfont.fnt

           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.

       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).

   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.

SEE ALSO
       GD

AUTHOR
       Lincoln   Stein   <lstein AT cshl.org>,   heavily   adapted  from  bdftogd  from  Jan  Pazdziora
       <adelton AT fi.cz>.

       Copyright (c) 2004 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same  terms
       as Perl itself.

perl v5.38.2                                 2026-06-16                               BDF2GDFONT(1p)