bdf2psf
font converter to generate console fonts from BDF source fonts
This package provides a command-line converter that can be used in scripts to build
console fonts from BDF sources automatically. The converter comes
with a collection of font encodings that cover many of the world's
languages. The output font can use a different character
encoding from the input. When the source font does not define a
glyph for a particular symbol in the encoding table, that
glyph position in the console font is not wasted but used for
another symbol.
When deciding about the position in the font for a particular glyph,
the converter takes into account that in text video modes the video
adapter copies the eighth column of the glyph matrix of symbols
positioned in the pseudographic area to the ninth column. In order to
create fonts for text video modes, the width of the glyph matrix of
the source BDF font should be seven, eight, or nine pixels; otherwise the
converter creates fonts suitable for framebuffer only.
