HEX2BDF(1)		     General Commands Manual		      HEX2BDF(1)

NAME
     hex2bdf - Convert a GNU Unifont .hex file into a BDF font

SYNOPSIS
     hex2bdf [options] < input-font.hex > output-font.bdf

DESCRIPTION
     hex2bdf  reads  a	sorted	GNU Unifont .hex file (sorted with the Unix sort
     utility) from STDIN and writes a BDF version of the font to STDOUT.

OPTIONS
     -f "font-name"
		 Specify the target font name.	If  omitted,  the  default  font
		 name "Unifont" is assigned.

     -v "font-version"
		 Specify  the target font version.  If omitted, the default ver-
		 sion "1.0" is assigned.

     -c "font-copyright"
		 Specify the target font copyright information.	 The default  is
		 the null string.

     -r pixel-rows
		 Specify  how  many  pixel rows tall a glyph is.  The default is
		 the traditional Unifont 16 rows of pixels.  This is an addition
		 to support unihex2png(1) and unipng2hex(1), which allow design-
		 ing glyphs that are 16, 24, or 32 pixel rows tall.

EXAMPLE
     Sample usage:

	    hex2bdf -f "Unifont" -c "(C) 2013..." unifont.hex > unifont.bdf

FILES
     *.hex GNU Unifont font files

SEE ALSO
     bdfimplode(1),   hex2otf(1),   hex2sfd(1),	   hexbraille(1),    hexdraw(1),
     hexkinya(1),   hexmerge(1),  johab2ucs2(1),  unibdf2hex(1),  unibmp2hex(1),
     unibmpbump(1), unicoverage(1),  unidup(1),	 unifont(5),  unifont-viewer(1),
     unifont1per(1), unifontchojung(1), unifontksx(1), unifontpic(1), unigencir-
     cles(1),  unigenwidth(1), unihex2bmp(1), unihex2png(1), unihexfill(1), uni-
     hexgen(1), unihexrotate(1), unipagecount(1), unipng2hex(1)

AUTHOR
     hex2bdf was written by Roman Czyborra.

LICENSE
     hex2bdf is Copyright (C) 1998 Roman Czyborra.

     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it un-
     der the terms of the GNU General Public License as published  by  the  Free
     Software  Foundation;  either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
     any later version.

BUGS
     No known bugs exist.  Support for glyph heights other  than  16  pixels  is
     brand new and has not been extensively tested.

				   2008 Jul 06			      HEX2BDF(1)