Fonts in the X Window System
Fonts in the X Window System: "The utilities dxfc, bdftopcf and bdftosnf convert between some of these formats, but converters for several font file format combinations are lacking.
getbdf can fetch a font from the X server, and output it in .bdf format. Since there are converters from this format to the others, this utility makes it possible to convert between any pair of formats, albeit by a roundabout route through the X server.
bdfresize can be used to scale a font in .bdf format by a rational factor. The output is also a .bdf file, but before you can use it, you need to edit the FONT line in the output file to change the font name to reflect the altered size.
showsnf can be used to print the contents of an .snf file.
mftobdf can be used to convert Metafont fonts to .bdf format.
The fstobdf utility can read any font from a font server, and output it in .bdf format
The xfd utility displays a table of all characters in a font, for example, xfd -fn 10x20.
The xlsfonts utility lists all of the fonts known to the X server. On many systems, this will produce a long list of 1000--2000 fonts, so if you use it, you probably want to filter its output through a pager, like less, more, or pg, or else through a pattern search utility like agrep, cgrep, ceegrep, egrep, fgrep, grep, or sgrep.
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getbdf can fetch a font from the X server, and output it in .bdf format. Since there are converters from this format to the others, this utility makes it possible to convert between any pair of formats, albeit by a roundabout route through the X server.
bdfresize can be used to scale a font in .bdf format by a rational factor. The output is also a .bdf file, but before you can use it, you need to edit the FONT line in the output file to change the font name to reflect the altered size.
showsnf can be used to print the contents of an .snf file.
mftobdf can be used to convert Metafont fonts to .bdf format.
The fstobdf utility can read any font from a font server, and output it in .bdf format
The xfd utility displays a table of all characters in a font, for example, xfd -fn 10x20.
The xlsfonts utility lists all of the fonts known to the X server. On many systems, this will produce a long list of 1000--2000 fonts, so if you use it, you probably want to filter its output through a pager, like less, more, or pg, or else through a pattern search utility like agrep, cgrep, ceegrep, egrep, fgrep, grep, or sgrep.
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