Pamtompfont User Manual(1) General Commands Manual Pamtompfont User Manual(1)
NAME
pamtompfont - Convert Netpbm image to Mplayer bitmap font file
SYNOPSIS
pamtompfont [netpbmfile]
All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix. You
may use two hyphens instead of one. You may separate an option name
and its value with white space instead of an equals sign.
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
pamtompfont reads a Netpbm image (PNM or PAM) and converts it to an
Mplayer bitmap font raster file.
This is the original font format used by Mplayer (for subtitles, on-
screen messages, etc.), before it had the ability to use Freetype to
access standard fonts.
The format was apparently an image format before Mplayer adopted it for
fonts, but I have no idea where it came from or where else it might be
used.
An Mplayer bitmap font consists of a font descriptor file and raster
files. The font descriptor file identifies the raster files by file
name. A raster file contains a single rectangular raster image which
contains an arrangement of a bunch of glyphs. Each glyph is a rectan-
gular image and the font descriptor indicates where in the image the
glyph for each codepoint is. Every glyph in the font has the same
height, so the font descriptor just indicates the file position in the
raster file of the to left corner of the glyph, and the width of the
glyph in pixels.
OPTIONS
There are no command line options defined specifically for pamtompfont,
but it recognizes the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
(See
Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ .)
SEE ALSO
pam(1)
HISTORY
pamtompfont was added to Netpbm in Release 10.43 (June 2008).
DOCUMENT SOURCE
This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
source. The master documentation is at
http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pamtompfont.html
netpbm documentation 18 May 2008 Pamtompfont User Manual(1)
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