SHOWFONT(1)                 General Commands Manual                SHOWFONT(1)

NAME
       showfont - font dumper for X font server

SYNOPSIS
       showfont [ -options ... ] -fn pattern

DESCRIPTION
       Showfont displays data about a font that matches the given pattern.
       The information shown includes font information, font properties,
       character metrics, and character bitmaps.

       The wildcard character "*" can be used to match any sequence of
       characters (including none) in the font name, and "?" can be used to
       match any single character.  The "*" and "?" characters must be quoted
       to prevent them from being expanded by the shell.  If no pattern is
       given, "*" is assumed.

OPTIONS
       -server servername
               The X font server to contact.  servername must be specified in
               one of the formats defined in the Font Server Names section of
               X(7).   If not specified, the server name in the FONTSERVER
               environment variable is used.

       -fn name
               The font to display.

       -lsb    The bit order of the font should be requested as LSBFirst
               (least significant bit first).

       -msb    The bit order of the font should be requested as MSBFirst (most
               significant bit first).

       -LSB    The byte order of the font should be requested as LSBFirst
               (least significant byte first).

       -MSB    The byte order of the font should be requested as MSBFirst
               (most significant byte first).

       -ext[ents_only]
               Only the character extents should be displayed, but not the
               bitmaps.

       -start char
               The start of the range of the characters to display (char is a
               number).

       -end char
               The end of the range of the characters to display (char is a
               number).

       -unit n The scanline unit of the font (8, 16, 32, or 64).

       -pad n  The scanpad unit of the font (8, 16, 32, or 64).

       -b[itmap_pad] n
               The bitmap padding unit of the font (0, 1, or 2, where 0 is
               ImageRectMin, 1 is ImageRectMaxWidth and 2 is ImageRectMax).

       -noprops
               Do not show the font properties.

       -version
               Print the program version and exit.

SEE ALSO
       xfs(1), fslsfonts(1), fstobdf(1), xlsfonts(1), X(7).

ENVIRONMENT
       FONTSERVER
               the default X font server to contact.  The server name must be
               specified in one of the formats defined in the Font Server
               Names section of X(7).

AUTHOR
       Dave Lemke, Network Computing Devices, Inc.

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