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<p>V360: /* Specifications */ Fix a broken FontForge docs link</p> <hr /> <div>{{FormatInfo<br /> |formattype=electronic<br /> |subcat=Fonts<br /> |extensions={{ext|pcf}}<br /> }}<br /> :''For the image format, see [[PCIF]].''<br /> <br /> '''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]].<br /> <br /> == Identification ==<br /> Files begin with &lt;code&gt;0x01&lt;/code&gt; &quot;&lt;code&gt;fcp&lt;/code&gt;&quot;.<br /> <br /> == Specifications ==<br /> * [https://fontforge.org/docs/techref/pcf-format.html Format for X11 PCF bitmap font files]<br /> * Appendix D (pgs. 436-450) of [http://books.google.com/books/about/The_X_Window_system_server.html?id=0s5QAAAAYAAJ ''The X Window System Server: X Version 11, Release 5''] by Elias Israel &amp; Erik Fortune, Digital Press, 1992. ISBN 1-55558-096-3<br /> <br /> == Software ==<br /> * [https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/pcf2bdf pcf2bdf]<br /> * [http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/bdftopcf/ bdftopcf]<br /> <br /> == Sample files ==<br /> * http://cd.textfiles.com/x11r6_9503/disk1/Linux/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> * [[Wikipedia:Portable Compiled Format|Wikipedia article]]<br /> * [http://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.7/doc/man/man1/bdftopcf.1.xhtml bdftopcf man page]<br /> <br /> [[Category:X Window System]]</div>

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