1 .TH UNIBMP2HEX 1 "2007 Dec 31"
3 unibmp2hex \- Bitmap graphics file to GNU Unifont .hex file converter
7 [-phexpage] [-iinput_file.bmp] [-ooutput_file.hex] [-w]
10 reads a bitmap produced by
12 before or after editing, and converts it back into a Unifont .hex format
13 file. The graphics file contains a block of 256 Unicode code points
14 arranged in a 16 by 16 grid. Each code point appears in a 32 by 32
15 pixel grid. Characters are either 16 rows high by 8 columns, or 16 rows by
21 Specify that the code points will be assigned to the 256 block space
23 in the .hex file. If not specified,
25 will determine the appropriate block by reading the row and column
26 headers. Note that "page" is not a standard
27 Unicode term. It refers to an output bitmap graphics page of
31 is greater than FF, the block resides above the Unicode Basic
32 Multilingual Plane. In that event, the .hex file will contain
33 eight digit hexadecimal code points rather than the Unifont
34 standard of four hexadecimal code points.
37 Specify the input file. The default is STDIN.
40 Specify the output file. The default is STDOUT.
43 Force all output .hex glyphs to be 16 pixels wide rather than dual
44 width (8 or 16 pixels).
49 unibmp2hex -imy_input_file.bmp -omy_output_file.hex
52 *.bmp or *.wbmp graphics files
66 .BR unifont-viewer(1),
67 .BR unifontchojung(1),
80 was written by Paul Hardy.
83 is Copyright \(co 2007, 2008 Paul Hardy.
85 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
86 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
87 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
88 (at your option) any later version.
90 No known real bugs exist, except that this software does not perform
91 extensive error checking on its input files. If they're not in the
92 format of the original bitmapped output from
96 If the output file is for a "page" containing space code points and the
97 bitmap file squares for those code points are not empty,
99 preserves the graphics as they are drawn.