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gbdfed-1.6p7

GTK-based BDF font editor

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Description

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.

Package information

Ports path
x11/gbdfed
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
x11, fonts
Available flavors
None listed

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