NAME

       pamtompfont - Convert Netpbm image to Mplayer bitmap font file

SYNOPSIS

       pamtompfont [netpbmfile]

       All  options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.  You may use two hyphens instead of one.
       You may separate an option name and its value with white space instead of an equals sign.

DESCRIPTION

       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       pamtompfont reads a Netpbm image (PNM or PAM) and converts it to an Mplayer bitmap font raster file.

       This is the original font format used by Mplayer (for subtitles, on-screen messages, etc.), before it had
       the ability to use Freetype to access standard fonts.

       The format was apparently an image format before Mplayer adopted it for fonts, but I have no  idea  where
       it came from or where else it might be used.

       An  Mplayer  bitmap  font  consists of a font descriptor file and raster files.  The font descriptor file
       identifies the raster files by file name.  A raster file contains a single rectangular raster image which
       contains an arrangement of a bunch of glyphs.  Each glyph is a rectangular image and the font  descriptor
       indicates  where  in  the  image  the  glyph for each codepoint is.  Every glyph in the font has the same
       height, so the font descriptor just indicates the file position in the raster file of the to left  corner
       of the glyph, and the width of the glyph in pixels.

OPTIONS

       There  are  no  command  line options defined specifically for pamtompfont, but it recognizes the options
       common to all programs based on libnetpbm (See  Common Options .)

SEE ALSO

       pam(1)

HISTORY

       pamtompfont was added to Netpbm in Release 10.43 (June 2008).

DOCUMENT SOURCE

       This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source.  The  master  documentation
       is at

              http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pamtompfont.html

netpbm documentation                               18 May 2008                        Pamtompfont User Manual(1)