NAME
bdftruncate - generate truncated BDF font from ISO
10646-1-encoded BDF font
SYNOPSIS
bdftruncate threshold <
source.bdf > destination.bdf
DESCRIPTION
bdftruncate allows one to generate from
an ISO10646-1 encoded BDF font other ISO10646-1 BDF fonts in which
all characters above a threshold code value are stored unencoded.
This is often desirable because the Xlib API and X11 protocol data
structures used for representing font metric information are
extremely inefficient when handling sparsely populated fonts.
EXAMPLE
The command
- bdftruncate 0x3200 < 6x13.bdf > 6x13t.bdf
will
generate the file 6x13t.bdf in which all glyphs with codes >=
0x3200 will only be stored unencoded (i.e., they are encoded at
codepoint -1).
SEE ALSO
ucs2any(1)
AUTHOR
bdftruncate was written by Markus Kuhn.
Branden Robinson wrote this manual page, originally for the
Debian Project.