1.\" Copyright (c) 2014 The FreeBSD Foundation. 2.\" 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 27.Dd July 19, 2022 28.Dt VTFONTCVT 8 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm vtfontcvt 32.Nd "convert font files for use by the video console" 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34.Nm 35.Op Fl nv 36.Op Fl f Ar format 37.Op Fl h Ar height 38.Op Fl w Ar width 39.Fl o Ar output_file 40.Ar normal_font 41.Op Ar bold_font 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43The 44.Nm 45utility reads source font files in either BDF or Unifont HEX format and 46outputs a file in one of the available output formats. 47.Pp 48HEX format files 49.Po Ar normal_font 50and 51.Ar bold_font Pc 52must have the file extension 53.Pa .hex . 54.Pp 55The following options are available: 56.Bl -tag -width "-o output_file" 57.It Fl f Ar format 58Specify the output format. 59Available formats are: 60.Bl -tag -width "compressed-source" 61.It Cm compressed-source 62C source with font data compressed by using LZ4 compression method. 63.It Cm font 64A binary font file 65.Pq default . 66.It Cm source 67C source. 68.El 69.Pp 70The output in C source is intended to be used to embed the font into program 71binary. 72.Pp 73The binary font file is for use by 74.Xr vt 4 . 75.It Fl h Ar height 76Set font height. 77The default is 16. 78Font height is set automatically for BDF files and for HEX files that have a 79.D1 # Height: Ar height 80comment before any font data. 81.It Fl n 82Do not apply output filtering with C source output. 83.It Fl o Ar output_file 84Specify the name for the output file. 85.It Fl v 86Display verbose statistics about the converted font. 87.It Fl w Ar width 88Set font width. 89The default is 8. 90Font width is set automatically for BDF files and for HEX files that have a 91.D1 # Width: Ar width 92comment before any font data. 93.El 94.Sh SEE ALSO 95.Xr vidcontrol 1 , 96.Xr vt 4 97.Sh HISTORY 98The 99.Nm 100utility first appeared in 101.Fx 10.1 . 102