SHOWFONT
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: showfont 1.0.2
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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.
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).
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1991, Network Computing Devices, Inc.
See X(7) for a full statement of rights and permissions.
AUTHOR
Dave Lemke, Network Computing Devices, Inc.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- ENVIRONMENT
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