gf2pbm(1)

💖 gf2pbm — bestie's guide to turning one (1) font character into a PBM 💖

okay so real talk, this is gf2pbm(1) from the General Commands Manual, and it's lowkey a little legend that does one thing and does it flawlessly. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

gf2pbm — convert a character from a GF font file to PBM format

like. that's it. that's the whole job. and she ATE. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gf2pbm [options] GF-file

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this manual page is just a lil quick rundown of the gf2pbm command, no biggie. here's the tea: gf2pbm is a program that takes a single character out of a METAFONT-produced GF font file and converts it into PBM format. one glyph. that's her whole main character moment. ✨

and why tho? because mftrace(1) uses it internally — it feeds the result to autotrace(1) so that autotrace(1) can create a Postscript outline description of the character. so she's not even doing it for the fame, she's doing it for the plot. iconic behavior tbh 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -b — dump a bitmap file. just. yeet the bitmap out there 💾
• -s — show glyph size. let's see how big this baby is 📏
• -n NUM — process glyph number NUM. pick your fighter, bestie 🔢
• -o FILE — output to FILE instead of stdout. redirect the vibes wherever you want 📁
• -h — show a summary of options. the lil cheat sheet, we love her 🙈
• -d — display debugging information. for when you gotta snoop 👀

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

here's the vibe check, fr fr:

• status 0 if it worked — slay, we're so back 🎉
• status 1 if the glyph you asked for did not exist — she's not here, she never was 😭
• status 2 if there was some other error — something else went wrong, and honestly? rude 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

mf(1), pktrace(1).

the whole girl squad. go say hi. 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

gf2pbm is based on Paul Vojta's Xdvi, and was munged by Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>. this manual page was written by Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). legends only, no cap. 💜

and that's the whole page babes — gf2pbm(1), last touched February 11, 2002 🎂 (yes she's been serving since 2002 and she has NOT missed a day). mwah, go convert a glyph, you got this 🍓🧚✨