UNIX Command $pwd /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi $fonttosfnt -o helvO12.ttf helvO12-ISO8859-1.pcf Couldn’t select character map: 6. $ls helvO12 helvO12-ISO8859-1.pcf helvO12.pcf.gz $gunzip helvO12.pcf.gz $fonttosfnt -o helvO12.ttf helvO12.pcf $ls helvO12.ttf helvO12.ttf $file helvO12.ttf helvO12.ttf: TrueType font data $ UNIX Explanation Wrap a bitmap font or a set of bitmap fonts in a sfnt (TrueType or OpenType) wrapper.
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pcf . file type
Portable Compiled Font data
Bitmap . computer graphics
Bitmap Explanation In computer graphics, a bitmap or pixmap is a type of memory organization or image file format used to store digital images. The term bitmap comes from the computer programming terminology, meaning just a map of bits, a spatially mapped array of bits. Now, along with pixmap, it commonly refers to the similar …