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@cshl.org>, heavily adapted from bdftogd from Jan Pazdziora <adelton@fi.muni.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.

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