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NAME
pamtompfont - Convert Netpbm image to Mplayer bitmap font file

SYNOPSIS
pamtompfont [imagefile]

All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix. You may use two hyphens
instead of one. You may separate an option name and its value with white space instead of
an equals sign.

DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).

pamtompfont reads a Netpbm image (PNM or PAM) and converts it to an Mplayer bitmap font
raster file.

This is the original font format used by Mplayer (for subtitles, on-screen messages,
etc.), before it had the ability to use Freetype to access standard fonts.

The format was apparently an image format before Mplayer adopted it for fonts, but I have
no idea where it came from or where else it might be used.

An Mplayer bitmap font consists of a font descriptor file and raster files. The font
descriptor file identifies the raster files by file name. A raster file contains a single
rectangular raster image which contains an arrangement of a bunch of glyphs. Each glyph
is a rectangular image and the font descriptor indicates where in the image the glyph for
each codepoint is. Every glyph in the font has the same height, so the font descriptor
just indicates the file position in the raster file of the to left corner of the glyph,
and the width of the glyph in pixels.

OPTIONS
None.