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fontconverter(1X) fontconverter(1X) NAME fontconverter - Converts user-defined characters (UDCs) into PCF format SYNOPSIS fontconverter [-merge] [-w width] [-h height] [-udc udc_name] -font 'font_name' [-preload] preload_file OPTIONS Specifies that command output be merged with an existing PCF font file. When the -merge option is specified, the command does not create a BDF file. See also the entry for the -font option. Specifies the width of the UDC font glyph. Use this option only when input fonts were created with a width smaller than the one specified for the cedit font-editing window. Specifies the height of the UDC font glyph. Use this option only when input fonts were created with a height smaller than the one specified for the cedit font-editing window. Specifies a non-default registry name when the -merge option is not specified. The file names for output files include base_name as the registry component, to which the fontconverter command automatically appends width and height speci- fiers and the and file types. The default registry names for UDC fonts vary according to language, as follows: JISX.UDC, for Japanese DEC.CNS.UDC, for Hanyu GB.UDC, for Hanzi When used with the -merge option, specifies the target font file for the merge operation. When used without the -merge option, specifies the font file whose header is used as a reference for generating the header of the standalone output file. Information in the reference font file is also used to determine default characters in the stand- alone output file. (A default character is a glyph, usually a square, that is displayed when the font file does not contain a glyph for a specified code.) The reference_font parameter is specified using the format reg- istry_width_height, for example: -font 'JISX.UDC_*' Specifies the file name of the input UDC file in a nondefault position on the command line. Include the -pre- load option only when specifying the preload_file parameter at a command line position other than last. OPERANDS Specifies the input UDC font file for which PCF and BDF output formats are generated. DESCRIPTION The fontconverter command creates PCF format font files for user-de- fined characters (UDCs) that are created by the font editor of the cedit utility. The PCF format font files allow UDCs to be displayed by X and Motif applications. Note You can also use the cgen command to create standalone PCF and BDF for- mat font files and to merge font information into existing PCF format files. The advantage of using the cgen command for a merge operation is that you do not have to use the mkfontdir and xset commands to make information in the merged PCF file available to applications. EXAMPLES The following example merges the UDC file, udc_font.pre, into the -*-140-*jisx0208* font. The generated output file is named jisx0208-kanji11_14_14.pcf: % fontconverter -merge -font '*-140-*jisx0208*' udc_font.pre The following example creates stand- alone font files in both PCF and BDF formats. The output files contain the converted result from udc_font.pre plus the default character and header information from font *-140-*jisx0208* but have the charset reg- istry name deckanji.udc: %fontconverter -udc deckanji.udc \ -font '*-140-*jisx0208*' udc_font.pre FILES Contains fontconverter error messages. SEE ALSO Commands: cedit(1), cgen(1) fontconverter(1X)