gf2pbm.1

.TH gf2pbm 1 "February 11, 2002"
.SH NAME
gf2pbm \- convert a character from a GF font file to PBM format
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B gf2pbm
.RI [ options ] " GF-file"
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B gf2pbm
command.
.B gf2pbm
is a program that converts a single character from a METAFONT-produced
GF font file to PBM format.  It is used internally by
.BR mftrace (1)
to feed to
.BR autotrace (1)
to create a Postscript outline description of the character.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-b
Dump a bitmap file.
.TP
.B \-s
Show glyph size.
.TP
.BI \-n " NUM"
Process glyph number
.IR NUM .
.TP
.BI \-o " FILE"
Output to
.I FILE
instead of
.IR stdout .
.TP
.B \-h
Show summary of options.
.TP
.B \-d
Display debugging information.
.SH "EXIT STATUS"
.B gf2pbm
exits with status 0 if successful, status 1 if the requested glyph did
not exist and status 2 if there was some other error.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR mf (1),
.BR pktrace (1).
.br
.SH AUTHOR
.B gf2pbm
is based on Paul Vojta's Xdvi, and was munged by Han-Wen Nienhuys
<hanwen@xs4all.nl>.  This manual page was written by Julian Gilbey
<jdg@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by
others).