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Re: [ft-devel] [Doubt] About human readable font files
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Alan Coopersmith |
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Re: [ft-devel] [Doubt] About human readable font files |
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Fri, 11 May 2018 09:40:54 -0700 |
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On 05/11/18 08:30 AM, Parth Wazurkar wrote:
> Hi all,
> I was going through different font files, I found out that bdf font files can
> be
> viewed as mentioned in their canonical reference (that they are human
> readable).
> I tried to open a pcf font file with a text editor but could not do so. I want
> to know whether these pcf files are human readable? If yes how can I read
> through the file?
They are not. pcf files are a binary format, generally created by running
bdftopcf on the bdf source files to create a binary format more efficient
for programs to use.
https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/xorg-docs/fonts/fonts.html#Installing_bitmap_fonts
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/docs/formats.txt
http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/PCF
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