convfont (1)
convert font files for svgalib
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
convert the standard format binary fontfile name
fontfile
to the codepage format required by
restorefont (1).
The converted font is written to
vgafontfile .
A binary font file of any number of characters up to 256 can be used, although
at least defining the first 128 characters is a good idea. The
fontheight
must be in the range
1 - 32 .
The
fontfile
file consist of
fontheight
bytes stored sequentially (top to bottom) for each character in your
font, starting with the character with code 0.
The format of
vgafontfile
is that required by
restorefont (1)
and described there.
This utility is part of svgalib and can be found in the
utils/
subdirectory of the original svgalib distribution. However, it is not installed
by default, s.t. it is unclear where you can find it if your svgalib was install
linux distribution.
In case of any such problem, simply get an svgalib distribution from the net. You
don't need to install it. Just
make
in the
utils/
subdirecty. As of this writing,
svgalib-1.2.12.tar.gz
is the latest version and can be retrieved by ftp from
sunsite.unc.edu at /pub/Linux/libs/graphics
and
tsx-11.mit.edu at /pub/linux/sources/libs
which will most probably be mirrored by a site close to you.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
This manual page was edited by Michael Weller <eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de>. The
exact source of the referenced utility as well as of the original documentation is
unknown.
It is very likely that both are at least to some extent are due to
Harm Hanemaayer <H.Hanemaayer@inter.nl.net>.
Occasionally this might be wrong. I hereby
asked to be excused by the original author and will happily accept any additions or corrections
to this first version of the svgalib manual.
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