PPMDCFONT(1)

💖 PPMDCFONT 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the Ppmdcfont User Manual — yeah, the whole General Commands Manual situation — and it's genuinely the shortest little icon in the Netpbm fam. no notes. let's go 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

ppmdcfont — Turn a Ppmdfont file into C source for a builtin font

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ppmdcfont

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so first things first: this program is part of Netpbm(1). it's giving "I have a very specific job and I do it."

also, literally, (There are no arguments or options). none. zero. not one. she's low maintenance fr fr 🙈

here's the tea: ppmdcfont creates a C source file that you can compile into a built-in font for use with the Netpbm PPM drawing facilities. she reads a Ppmdfont file on Standard Input and writes the C source code to Standard Output. in one end, out the other, iconic behavior. ✨

now. listen. 👀 the output C source code has the font object's name hardcoded as ppmd_standardfont, and bestie you will definitely want to edit that, because that is also the name of the font built in to libnetpbm. if you don't change it, it will conflict both cognitively and in program linking. like… two girls, one name, same group chat. chaos. 💀

and yeah — there should obviously be an option on ppmdcfont to choose this, but the development effort has not been justified so far. we live in the world we live in. slay for the honesty tho 🫶

wanna know all the deets on Ppmdfont files? go see Libnetpbm PPM Drawing Function Manual" (1) 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• ppmdraw(1)
• ppmddumpfont(1)
• ppmdcfont(1)
• Libnetpbm PPM Drawing Function Manual(1)

🦋 DOCUMENT SOURCE 🦋

this manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool makeman from HTML source. the master documentation lives at

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

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and that's the whole thing, babe — netpbm documentation, September 2005, brought to you by the Ppmdcfont User Manual. periodt. 💜 🎀 ✨