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convfont(1)		       Svgalib User Manual		     convfont(1)

NAME
     convfont - convert font files for svgalib

SYNOPSIS
     convfont fontfile fontheight vgafontfile

DESCRIPTION
     convert  the  standard format binary fontfile name fontfile to the codepage
     format required by restorefont(1).  The converted font is written	to  vga-
     fontfile.

     A	binary	font file of any number of characters up to 256 can be used, al-
     though at least defining the first 128  characters  is  a	good  idea.  The
     fontheight must be in the range 1 - 32.

     The  fontfile  file consist of fontheight bytes stored sequentially (top to
     bottom) for each character in your font, starting with the  character  with
     code 0.

     The  format of vgafontfile is that required by restorefont(1) and described
     there.

     This utility is part of svgalib and can be found in the utils/ subdirectory
     of the original svgalib distribution. However, it is not installed  by  de-
     fault, s.t. it is unclear where you can find it if your svgalib was install
     linux distribution.

     In  case  of  any such problem, simply get an svgalib distribution from the
     net. You don't need to install it. Just make in the utils/  subdirecty.  As
     of this writing, svgalib-1.2.12.tar.gz is the latest version and can be re-
     trieved   by  ftp	from  sunsite.unc.edu  at  /pub/Linux/libs/graphics  and
     tsx-11.mit.edu at /pub/linux/sources/libs which will most probably be  mir-
     rored by a site close to you.

SEE ALSO
     svgalib(7),  vgagl(7), libvga.config(5), dumpreg(1), fix132x43(1), restore-
     font(1), restorepalette(1), restoretextmode(1),  runx(1),	savetextmode(1),
     setmclk(1), textmode(1).

AUTHOR
     This  manual  page  was  edited  by Michael Weller <eowmob@exp-math.uni-es-
     sen.de>. The exact source of the referenced utility as well as of the orig-
     inal documentation is unknown.

     It is very likely that both are at least to some extent  are  due	to  Harm
     Hanemaayer <H.Hanemaayer@inter.nl.net>.

     Occasionally this might be wrong. I hereby asked to be excused by the orig-
     inal  author  and	will happily accept any additions or corrections to this
     first version of the svgalib manual.

Svgalib (>= 1.2.11)		   2 Aug 1997			     convfont(1)

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