PAMTOMPFONT(1)

💅 pamtompfont — like, the manual, but make it make sense

okay bestie, welcome to the pamtompfont user manual, from the General Commands Manual section. she's a Netpbm girlie and she's here to turn your cute little Netpbm pics into Mplayer bitmap font files. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

pamtompfont — Convert Netpbm image to Mplayer bitmap font file

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pamtompfont [netpbmfile]

All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix. You may use two hyphens instead of one. You may separate an option name and its value with white space instead of an equals sign. yes queen, she's flexible 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This program is part of Netpbm(1). (iykyk, the whole Netpbm cinematic universe 💖)

pamtompfont reads a Netpbm image (PNM or PAM) and converts it to an Mplayer bitmap font raster file.

This is, like, the original font format used by Mplayer — for subtitles, on-screen messages, etc. — from back before it had the ability to use Freetype to access standard fonts. vintage behavior, honestly iconic 👑

The format was apparently an image format before Mplayer adopted it for fonts, but the author has no idea where it came from or where else it might be used. like, truly a mystery origin story, no cap 🙈

An Mplayer bitmap font consists of a font descriptor file and raster files. Here's the tea:

• The font descriptor file identifies the raster files by file name.
• A raster file contains a single rectangular raster image which contains an arrangement of a bunch of glyphs.
• Each glyph is a rectangular image, and the font descriptor indicates where in the image the glyph for each codepoint is.
• Every glyph in the font has the same height, so the font descriptor just indicates the file position in the raster file of the top left corner of the glyph, and the width of the glyph in pixels.

basically a little glyph scrapbook and a map that says where everyone's sitting. adorable. 🥰

👑 OPTIONS 👑

There are no command line options defined specifically for pamtompfont, but it recognizes the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (See Common Options.)

so like, no specials on the menu, just the house standard. periodt 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• pam(1)

💜 HISTORY 💜

pamtompfont was added to Netpbm in Release 10.43 (June 2008). a lil 2008 baby, we love a vintage queen 🎀

🎀 DOCUMENT SOURCE 🎀

This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool makeman from HTML source. The master documentation is at

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pamtompfont.html

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and that's the whole vibe, bestie — netpbm documentation, 18 May 2008, Pamtompfont User Manual(1). slay, go convert some fonts, you got this 💖✨🦋