bdftruncate1
Generate truncated bdf font from iso 10646-1-encoded bdf font
Usage
bdftruncate threshold
<
source.bdf
>
destination.bdf
bdftruncate [{--help | --version}]
Overview
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.
Options
-
--help -
prints usage message and exits.
-
--version -
prints version information and exits.
Examples
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).
Releases
11 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 5 times.
--help since Arch Linux 2026-11-01;
--version since Arch Linux 2026-11-01.