DUMPPSF(1)

💅 DUMPPSF(1) — like, the user contributed perl documentation, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, sit down, we're talking about dumppsf, a perl script that lives in the user-contributed perl docs corner of the manual, and it is so much more useful than its name suggests. it takes a psf file and turns it into a readable ASCII file. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

dumppsf — converts psf file to readable ASCII file.

like. that's it. that's the girl. she converts, she dumps, she serves. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dumppsf fontfile

one argument. one job. iconic behavior honestly. 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea, bestie. this script takes a psf font with unicode mapping as its argument — that's the fontfile from up there, don't forget her — and it produces a text file where all characters from this font are represented graphically. yes, literally every single one of them, drawn out in text so you can actually see them.

and the way that this is lowkey genius?? it lets you preview a Linux console font even if there is no Linux console around. no console? no problem. you're still getting your little font preview, no cap. ✨🔥

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💀 BUGS 💀

okay so this is the part where we hold hands. 🫶

No undumppsf script is written yet, so it is impossible to edit the ASCII representation of the font and convert back. 😭

so like — you can look at the font, you can admire the font, you can be obsessed with the font, but you cannot edit the ASCII version and turn it back into a font. one-way street, bestie. the glow-up is not reversible. 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go check out her friends, they're all in the same group chat:

• displayfont(1)
• raw2psf(1)
• consolechars(1)

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Public domain. Maide on Earth.

that's it. no license drama, no legal paragraphs, just pure public domain energy and a mysterious little Earth mention. we love that for us. 💖

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Victor Wagner <vitus@ice.ru>

the main character who wrote this. we stan. 👑

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okay bestie that's the whole page — written by Victor Wagner <vitus@ice.ru>, shipped with perl v5.32.1, dated 2022-01-04, and honestly she ate. go dump a psf file, go preview a font, live your truth. periodt. 🦋✨💜