BDFRESIZE(1)

💖 BDFRESIZE(1) — the resize-BDF-fonts girlie 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the manual page for bdfresize, a General Commands Manual classic, and honestly? she's iconic. she magnifies, she reduces, she does it all. let's get into it. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

bdfresize — Resize BDF Format Font. that's it, that's the whole job, and she eats every time 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

bdfresize [-v] [-b number] [-[whf] factor] [bdf-file]

look at her. so compact. so powerful. the range? unmatched. 🌈

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So. bdfresize is a command whose entire personality is magnifying or reducing fonts that are described with the standard BDF format. no cap. 🎀

If bdf-file is not specified, she just reads from stdin — she's flexible like that, she'll take what you give her. and then bdfresize outputs the result to stdout in BDF format, obviously, because that's the vibe. 💖

A few COMMENT lines get inserted into the result font, little notes she leaves behind, like a "was here 💜" in your font file.

The FONT name gets modified depending on the resize factor — but only if the name is described in XLFD format. iykyk.

Also getting a glow-up: SIZE, FONTBOUNDINGBIX, SWIDTH, DWIDTH, BBX, and some property lines. those all get modified too. 🫶

Everything else? copied from source. she's not gonna mess with what's already working, periodt.

⚠️ bestie, heads up ⚠️ if a syntax error occurs in a source font, bdfresize notices it and stops the whole process. she does not play about syntax errors. the entire run just ends. 💀

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

the menu, the moment, the options: 🍓

• -v — shows the version number and exits. that's it, that's the whole bit, and she's valid for it. ✨
• -b number — specifies the blackness. the pixel values of a resized font are decided by this value, so it's kind of a big deal. the default is 4. 🌈
• -w factor — specifies the resize factor for the font width. 📏
• -h factor — specifies the resize factor for the font height. 📐
• -f factor — same as -w factor -h factor**. one flag, both dimensions, she's efficient like that. 💅

🎀 the factor tea 🎀

factor is described in either of the following forms:

<digits>
<digits>/<digits>

so a plain number, or a lil fraction situation. both are correct, both are gorgeous. 🦋

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

go read these too, they're all part of the same friend group: 💖

• bdftopcf(1)
• xfed(1)
• Character Bitmap Distribution Format 2.1 (Adobe Systems, Inc.)
• X Logical Font Description Conventions (MIT X Consortium Stardard)

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Copyright (C) 1988, 1992 Hiroto Kagotani. 🌸

kagotani@cs.titech.ac.jp

we love a legend who shipped it and signed it. 🫶

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and that's the whole page, bestie — BDF, dated 12 October 1992, filed under BDFRESIZE(1). mwah. go resize something gorgeous. 💅✨🎀🦋💖