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showfont - font dumper for X font server
showfont [ -options
... ] -fn pattern
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.
- -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.
xfs(1)
, fslsfonts(1)
, fstobdf(1)
, xlsfonts(1)
, X(7)
.
- 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 1991, Network Computing Devices,
Inc.
See X(7)
for a full statement of rights and permissions.
Dave Lemke,
Network Computing Devices, Inc.
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