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gbdfed 1.6
INTRO
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gbdfed is a GTK-based BDF font editor with the following features:
o Multiple fonts can be loaded from the command line.
o Multiple fonts can be open at the same time.
o Cutting and pasting glyphs between fonts.
o Multiple glyph bitmap editors can be open at the same time.
o Cutting and pasting between glyph bitmap editors.
o Export of XBM files from glyph bitmap editors.
o Automatic correction of certain metrics when a font is loaded.
o Generation of XLFD font names for fonts without XLFD names.
o Update an XLFD font name from the font properties.
o Update the font properties from an XLFD font name.
o Font property editor.
o Font comment editor.
o Supports unencoded glyphs (ENCODING of -1).
o Display of glyph encodings in octal, decimal, or hex.
o Builtin on-line help.
o Imports PK/GF fonts.
o Imports HBF (Han Bitmap Font) fonts.
o Imports Linux console fonts (PSF, CP, and FNT).
o Imports Sun console fonts (vfont format).
o Imports fonts from the X server.
o Imports Windows FON/FNT fonts.
o Imports OpenType/TrueType fonts and collections.
o Exports PSF fonts.
o Exports HEX fonts.
A few things missing from this font editor:
o No way to create space glyphs in monowidth or character cell fonts.
o No support for scaling fonts.
o Fonts with right-to-left direction (negative widths) not supported.
o No way to edit comments appearing in the properties list.
Known problems:
o Selecting the original font editor from the "Windows" menu does not
deiconify, set focus, and place it on top like it should.
o Deleting glyphs from or inserting glyphs into a font grid do not update
the glyph editors if they happen to be editing a deleted glyph or a glyph
that moved due to an insertion.
COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
--------------------
gbdfed [options] [font1 font2 ...]
-nc - do not preserve comments
-nu - do not preserve unencoded glyphs
-nm - do not make metrics corrections
-np - do not pad character-cell bitmaps
-bp - allow blank pages
-ed - do not present the "Really Exit?" dialog
-ps n - set default point size
-hres n - set default horizontal resolution
-vres n - set default vertical resolution
-res n - set both default resolutions
-sp s - set font spacing ("p" for proportional, "m" for monospace,
or "c" for charcell).
-eol e - set the default end-of-line char(s) ("u" for Unix, "d" for DOS,
or "m" for Mac).
-g code - set the initial glyph code (in decimal, hex or octal).
-cb base - set the code base for display of glyph codes, can be "octal,"
"decimal," or "hexadecimal." The first letter of these names
work as well.
By default, gbdfed will set its point size to 12, the horizontal and
vertical resolution to that of the display (e.g. 90x90 dpi for Sun's), and
the font spacing to proportional. Also by default, gbdfed will preserve
comments, preserve unencoded glyphs, and make metrics corrections when
loading fonts.
COMPILING
---------
To build gbdfed, GTK 2.6 or greater is required. It may be that versions as
early as 2.3 will work, but only various versions of 2.7 through 2.20 have been
tested.
Optional:
Freetype2 support is optional and can be found at:
http://www.freetype.org
Step 1.
Run the "configure" script to generate the Makefile. By default, the program
installs in /usr/local. You can change that by using the --prefix option of
the "configure" script.
To disable the File->Import->X Server Font feature, use the --without-x
command line option to the "configure" script.
Step 2.
Compile the program
WARNINGS
--------
1. When compiling on HP/UX, the htext.h file has long concatenated strings that
require the -H option (noted by W. Chao).
2. Compiling with the gcc -pedantic option complains about strings being too
long in the help text file. The help system will be changed in later
versions.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
----------------
Thanks go to the following people:
Ross Patterson for his HBF code.
der Mouse for his "getbdf" code.
K. Carothers and A. Korobka for their "fnt2bdf" code in Wine.
Mike Stroyan <mike_stroyan@fc.hp.com> for patches.
Primoz Peterlin <primoz.peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si> for the man page and
some changes for building on HP/UX.
Danny Backx <u27113@kb.be> for the LessTif Imakefile.
Donald Page <donaldp@sco.com> for patches.
Michal Szymanski <msz@sirius.astrouw.edu.pl> for problem reports.
Werner Lemberg <a7971428@unet.univie.ac.at> for pointing out a problem
with the HBF code and other problem reports.
William F. Maton <wmaton@enterprise.ic.gc.ca> for pointing out a
problem with padding character cell fonts.
Ivan Nejgebauer <ian@uns.ns.ac.yu> for reporting a problem with glyph
names on imported console fonts.
Solofo <solofo@mpi-sb.mpg.de> for reporting a problem when creating an
XLFD name. The old name was saved in the FONT property and some
versions of "mkfontdir" use that instead of the first FONT field. Also
for recommending that the Ctrl+F4 accelerator be configurable if
it does not suit the user.
Dave Bodenstab <imdave@mcs.net> for providing a patch for a problem
with the HBF code that was not allowing gzipped HBF files to be
loaded, and a patch to get rid of some extraneous code. Also a patch to fix
some size problems with GlyphEditors.
W. Chao <wchao@HRZ.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> for providing the Makefile changes
needed to compile on HP/UX and pointing out a problem with the builtin
documentation.
Andreas Reuter <ar205@bonzo.geowiss.nat.tu-bs.de> for pointing out a problem
with importing TrueType fonts.
Leonard Dickens <leonard@saul.hipgraphics.com> for providing the Makefile
changes needed for IRIX 6.3.
Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> for a handful of good suggestions.
Jim Knoble <jmknoble@pobox.com> for some geometry improvements in some
dialogs.
Darren Stuart Embry <dsembr01@ox.slug.louisville.edu> for the donation of
another HP/UX 10.20 X11R6 compilation setup.
Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru> for pointing out something I forgot to
test.
Ben Fry <fry@media.mit.edu> for IRIX 6.5.2 variables for the Makefile.
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org> for fixing bugs with the PK/GF
import feature.
Robert Brady <rwb197@ecs.soton.ac.uk> for pointing out a problem with the
length of _XFREE86_GLYPH_RANGES properties and an Exceed font compiler.
Stefan Monnier <monnier@cs.yale.edu> for a bug report on highlight thickness
of 0.
Humphrey Clerx <humphrey.clerx@eurocontrol.be> for pointing out some
compilation problem on Digit Unix 4.0 and some compilation problems with
Traditional C compilers.
Rudolf Cejka <cejkar@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz> for providing patches to fix
problems with grabbing fonts from the X server and alerting me to
uninitialized variable warnings.
Baruch Even <baruch@ev-en.org> for providing a fix for a bug that should
have shown up long ago dealing with font properties.
Sergey Vlasov <vsu@mivlgu.murom.ru> for pointing out a serious problem with
naming glyphs from the Unicode Character Database and for providing a fix
for a potential buffer overflow problem.
Daniel Neuburger <daniel.neuburger@lmco.com> for providing a patch that
fixes a display problem in the Font Grid.
Pierre HANSER <Pierre.Hanser@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> for a patch to fix a
problem loading font names that are not NULL terminated from the end of
FON/FNT files.
Patrick Hagglund <patrik.hagglund@bredband.net> for providing the patches to
use FreeType 2.
James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> for finding problems with gbdfed.
Ming Hua <minghua@rice.edu> for locating a problem with editing glyphs.
Sergio Martins <smartins@students.dei.uc.pt> for finding a typo and several
dialog related bugs.
Viktor Urban <viktor@icc-atcsolutions.com> for locating a problem when
saving and moving to the next or previous glyph.
Jiri "BlueBear" Dluhos <modry.medved@seznam.cz> for producing crash fixes on
64-bit machines.
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> for providing an improvement on the
help text, a missing prototype, and an improvement in Makefile.in.
Daniel Richard G. <skunk@iSKUNK.ORG> for diagnosing problems on 64-bit
architectures.
Baruch Even <baruch@ev-en.org> for diagnosing problems on 64-bit
architectures.
Ming Hua <minghua.debian@gmail.com> for pointing out a warning about testing
a NULL region.
Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org> for pointing out a crashing problem with
filename filters when the import dialog was popped up multiple times.
Don Knuth for reporting problems with the documentation and a highlighting
problem (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gbdfed/+bug/172836).
Tim Allen <screwtape@froup.com> for reporting an obscure bug with glyph
spacing which led to fixing another spacing related bug. Also for the idea
of preserving device width offsets.
Daniel Quarras <dqarras@yahoo.com> for discovering that deleting PSF
unicode map entries was being ignored.
Bertrand Janin <tamentis@neopulsar.org> for adding glyph navigation buttons
to the GlyphEditors.
Peter Volkov <pva@gentoo.org> for fixing a name collision with Glib 2.10.
Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> for the configuration addition
that fixes a problem with implicit dynamic linking that showed up with newer
versions of gcc.
AUTHOR
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Mark Leisher <mleisher@gmail.com>
15 April 2010