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NAME

       unihex2bmp - GNU Unifont .hex file to bitmap graphics file converter

SYNOPSIS

       unihex2bmp [-phexpage] [-iinput_file] [-ooutput_file] [-f] [-w]

DESCRIPTION

       unihex2bmp  reads  a  GNU  Unifont  .hex  file Unicode page of 256 code
       points and converts the page into a Microsoft Windows Bitmap (.bmp)  or
       Wireless Bitmap (.wbmp) file.  The bitmap file displays the glyphs of a
       Unicode block of 256 code points in a 32 by 32 pixel grid.  The  glyphs
       themselves  must  be  16 rows, and either 8 columns or 16 columns wide.
       The default page is 0; that is, the range U+0000 throught U+00FF.

       The bitmap can be printed.  It can also be edited with a bitmap editor.
       An  edited bitmap can then be re-converted into a GNU Unifont .hex file
       with the unibmp2hex command.

OPTIONS

       -ppagenum   Extract page pagenum from the .hex file.   The  default  is
                   Page  0  (Unicode  range U+0000 through U+00FF).  Note that
                   "page" is not a standard Unicode term.   It  refers  to  an
                   output bitmap graphics page of 16 by 16 code points.

       -i          Specify the input file. The default is stdin.

       -o          Specify the output file. The default is stdout.

       -f          "Flip"  (transpose)  the  grid  so  it  matches the Unicode
                   standard order.

       -w          Produce  a  Wireless  Bitmap  format  file  instead  of   a
                   Microsoft Windows Bitmap file.

FILES

       *.hex GNU Unifont font files

SEE ALSO

       bdfimplode(1), hex2bdf(1), hex2bdf-split(1), hex2sfd(1), hexbraille(1),
       hexdraw(1), hexmerge(1), johab2ucs2(1), unibmp2hex(1),  unicoverage(1),
       unidup(1), unipagecount(1), uniunmask(1)

AUTHOR

       unihex2bmp was written by Paul Hardy.

LICENSE

       unihex2bmp  is  Copyright  ©  2007  Paul  Hardy,  and is released under
       version 2 of the GNU General Public License,  or  (at  your  option)  a
       later version.

BUGS

       No  known  real  bugs exist, except that this software does not perform
       extensive error checking on its input files.  If  they’re  not  in  the
       format  of  the original GNU Unifont hex file, all bets are off.  Lines
       can be terminated either with carriage return, or carriage return  plus
       line feed.

                                  2007 Dec 31