PCF


 * For the image format, see PCIF.

PCF (Portable Compiled Format) is a bitmap font format used by the X Window System. It is more or less a binary version of BDF.

Identification
Files begin with  " ".

Specifications

 * Format for X11 PCF bitmap font files
 * Appendix D (pgs. 436-450) of The X Window System Server: X Version 11, Release 5 by Elias Israel & Erik Fortune, Digital Press, 1992. ISBN 1-55558-096-3

Software

 * pcf2bdf
 * bdftopcf

Sample files

 * http://cd.textfiles.com/x11r6_9503/disk1/Linux/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/

Links

 * Wikipedia article
 * bdftopcf man page