BSD Ports

x11-fonts/psftools 1.0.14 DragonFly

Converters for simple fixed-width bitmap fonts

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
GPLv2
Categories
x11-fonts
Package size
169.2 KiB, 1121.0 KiB installed

Description

The PSF Tools are an attempt to do something similar to NetPBM, for simple fixed-width bitmap fonts.

The current release can convert the following formats to PSF:

  • Raw (DOS-style) font
  • Windows font (FNT, FON)
  • Sinclair Spectrum +3
  • MDA character ROM dump
  • DOS/Linux codepages (CP, CPI)
  • Hercules WriteOn (WOF)
  • Wyse-60 soft font
  • BBC Micro soft font
  • Plain text

and PSF to the following formats:

  • Raw font
  • Windows font (FNT, FON)
  • Hercules WriteOn (WOF)
  • DOS codepages (CPI)
  • Sinclair Spectrum +3
  • BDF
  • C include file
  • BSD 'wsfont' kernel header
  • XBM image containing all characters
  • Single PBM image for each character
  • Plain text
  • Wyse-60 soft font
  • BBC Micro soft font

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 1.1.3, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlyx11-fonts/psftools1.0.14none known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDx11-fonts/psftools1.0.14none known-[email protected]-
OpenBSDsysutils/psftools by name1.1.3 newestno data-The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>-
NetBSDsysutils/psftools by name1.1.1none known-[email protected]-
MidnightBSDx11-fonts/psftools1.0.14no data-[email protected]-
HardenedBSDx11-fonts/psftools1.0.14no data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDx11-fonts/psftools1.0.14no data-[email protected]-

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Install

Binary package:

pkg install psftools

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/x11-fonts/psftools && make install clean

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

===>   NOTICE:

The psftools port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing