psf2xbm(1)

💖 psf2xbm — the glow-up your fonts deserve 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this lil tool from the PSF Tools fam is about to make your terminal fonts pop ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

psf2xbm — convert a PC Screen Font file to an X-Window bitmap 💅

like, it takes your .PSF font and turns it into a whole X-Window bitmap. iconic behaviour honestly.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

psf2xbm [-across=columns] [INPUTFILE [OUTPUTFILE]]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea 🍵 — psf2xbm takes a font in the .PSF format and converts it into an X-Window bitmap that shows off all its characters, laid out 32 to a line by default. yes, all of them. every single lil glyph getting its moment 👑

and why do we care?? because it means you can preview PSFs so easily, no cap. you literally just pipe them straight into your viewer like this:

psf2xbm | xv -

and boom 💥 preview. it's giving effortless. it's giving main character energy. the way that command just works 😭

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --across=columns — sets how many columns you wanna display, bestie. default is 32. and the row count? it just gets derived from however many columns you picked. so you pick the width, the rows sort themselves out. we love a self-sufficient king 🫶

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• xv(1)
• vfont2ppm(1)

go check 'em out, they're part of the same friend group 💜

💌 AUTHOR 💌

John Elliott <seasip.webmaster@gmail.com>

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and that's the whole vibe, bestie!! 🌈 go forth and preview your fonts, you absolute icon 🎀✨

this installment of the lore comes courtesy of Version 1.1.3, dated 22 January, 2021, from the PSF Tools collection 🍓 — mwah, love that for us 💖💅