NAME

       showfont - font dumper for X font server

SYNOPSIS

       showfont [ -options ... ] -fn pattern

DESCRIPTION

       Showfont  displays data about a font that matches the given pattern.  The information shown includes font
       information, font properties, character metrics, and character bitmaps.

       The wildcard character "*" can be used to match any sequence of characters (including none) in  the  font
       name,  and  "?"  can be used to match any single character.  The "*" and "?" characters must be quoted to
       prevent them from being expanded by the shell.  If no pattern is given, "*" is assumed.

OPTIONS

       -server servername
               The X font server to contact.  servername must be specified in one of the formats defined in  the
               Font  Server  Names  section  of  X(7).    If  not  specified,  the server name in the FONTSERVER
               environment variable is used.

       -fn name
               The font to display.

       -lsb    The bit order of the font should be requested as LSBFirst (least significant bit first).

       -msb    The bit order of the font should be requested as MSBFirst (most significant bit first).

       -LSB    The byte order of the font should be requested as LSBFirst (least significant byte first).

       -MSB    The byte order of the font should be requested as MSBFirst (most significant byte first).

       -ext[ents_only]
               Only the character extents should be displayed, but not the bitmaps.

       -start char
               The start of the range of the characters to display (char is a number).

       -end char
               The end of the range of the characters to display (char is a number).

       -unit n The scanline unit of the font (8, 16, 32, or 64).

       -pad n  The scanpad unit of the font (8, 16, 32, or 64).

       -b[itmap_pad] n
               The bitmap padding unit of the font (0, 1, or 2, where 0 is ImageRectMin, 1 is  ImageRectMaxWidth
               and 2 is ImageRectMax).

       -noprops
               Do not show the font properties.

       -version
               Print the program version and exit.

SEE ALSO

       xfs(1), fslsfonts(1), fstobdf(1), xlsfonts(1), X(7).

ENVIRONMENT

       FONTSERVER
               the  default  X  font server to contact.  The server name must be specified in one of the formats
               defined in the Font Server Names section of X(7).

AUTHOR

       Dave Lemke, Network Computing Devices, Inc.

X Version 11                                     showfont 1.0.6                                      SHOWFONT(1)