psf2bsd(1)

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version 1.1.3 · 2 versions
, in nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu stonking

💖 psf2bsd — bestie edition 💖

okay so you know psf2bsd? it's a little tool from PSF Tools and it lives in section 1 of the manual, so yeah, it's a command you just run in your shell, no cap. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

psf2bsd — convert a PC Screen Font file to a BSD soft-font kernel header 💅

like... it takes your cute little .PSF font and turns it into a header the BSD kernel can vibe with. iconic behaviour honestly.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

psf2bsd [--name=NAME] [--typeface=NAME] [--encoding=ENC] [--first=FIRST]
[--last=LAST] [INPUTFILE [OUTPUTFILE]]

so yes, all those flags are optional, and the input and output files are optional too. it's giving "we'll figure it out" energy ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the whole thing that psf2bsd does: it converts a font that's in the .PSF format — that's PC Screen Font — into the format used by the NetBSD wsfont kernel headers.

that's it. that's the job. it takes font, it makes kernel header. main character energy fr fr 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --name=NAME — sets the name of the C structure that's gonna hold the font. defaults to 'font'. for example, --name=bold8x16 💖
  • --typeface=NAME — sets the displayed name of the typeface. for example, --name=Boldface 🌈
  • --encoding=ENC — sets the encoding to use. this should be one of the WSDISPLAY_FONTENC_* macros. and for convenience, bestie, you can ALSO use --encoding=437 as shorthand for WSDISPLAY_FONTENC_IBM, and --encoding=819 as shorthand for WSDISPLAY_FONTENC_ISO ✨
  • --first=FIRST — sets the first character to include in the output file 🍓
  • --last=LAST — sets the last character to include in the output file 🍓

💀 BUGS 💀

for anything other than the simplest test cases, horizontal alignment of the output will almost certainly look untidy. 😭

yeah. it's messy. we know. it's not a bug so much as a lifestyle, but they put it in the BUGS section so here we are. if you're doing anything fancier than the most basic test case, expect the columns to be a little... slanted. 🙈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

John Elliott <seasip.webmaster@gmail.com>. 💜

and that's the whole page!! it's from PSF Tools, version 1.1.3, dated 28 April, 2026 — so like, take that energy with you and go convert some fonts, bestie 🧚✨💅

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