1 gbdfed is a GTK-based BDF font editor with the following features:
3 o Multiple fonts can be loaded from the command line.
4 o Multiple fonts can be open at the same time.
5 o Cutting and pasting glyphs between fonts.
6 o Multiple glyph bitmap editors can be open at the same time.
7 o Cutting and pasting between glyph bitmap editors.
8 o Export of XBM files from glyph bitmap editors.
9 o Automatic correction of certain metrics when a font is loaded.
10 o Generation of XLFD font names for fonts without XLFD names.
11 o Update an XLFD font name from the font properties and vice-versa.
12 o Font property & comment editor.
13 o Supports unencoded glyphs (ENCODING of -1).
14 o Display of glyph encodings in octal, decimal, or hex.
15 o Builtin on-line help.
17 gbdfed imports and/or exports the following formats:
19 o PK/GF, HBF (Han Bitmap Font)
20 o PSF, CP, FNT (linux) and vfont (Sun) console fonts
21 o X server built-in fonts
23 o OpenType/TrueType fonts and collections