vfont2txt(1)

📦 version 1.1.3, in nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu stonking

✨ vfont2txt ✨

okay bestie, so like. this is vfont2txt, a lil tool from the PSF Tools collection 💖 and the whole vibe is: convert a BSD vfont file to text. that's it. that's the mission. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

vfont2txt [INPUTFILE [OUTPUTFILE]]

like, give it a file (or don't, whatever) and it'll give you a file (or don't, whatever). the brackets are giving "optional, no pressure" ✨

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the tea ☕ vfont2txt takes a font in the vfont(5) format and flips it into a human-readable textual format. not me making fonts readable fr fr 😭 the resulting file is fully editable by hand — you can open it up, poke at it, fix a letter that's been bugging you — and then you can convert it right back using txt2vfont(1). round trip. iconic. 👑

the file format it spits out is the one documented over in txt2vfont(1) — that's the blueprint, go read it iykyk.

now, when the character bitmaps get output, the location of the baseline point gets marked, and the markers are:

  • O — the blank one 🫶
  • @ — the dot one

and alongside those, there's:

  • = — marks the horizontal position of the baseline
  • | — marks the corresponding vertical position

so you can literally see where the baseline lives. visual learner friendly, slay. 🌈

⚠️ heads up bestie: when that file gets parsed by txt2vfont(1), the location of the O or @ (if it's present, like if you even included one) gets checked against the Left and Up values that locate the baseline point. if they don't match? warning issued. so keep those consistent or face the consequences 💀

also the header of the file will include three purely notational fields:

  • BitmapLength
  • MaxWidth
  • MaxHeight

purely notational, ok? they're just there chillin. don't read into it. 💜

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the whole friend group honestly, go say hi 🎀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

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

the main character who wrote all this 🌟 ty for your service

and that's the whole page babes!! 💖 this was Version 1.1.3, dated 28 April, 2026, coming at you from PSF Tools — vfont2txt(1), no cap, periodt. ✨🫶🌸

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