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PSF Tools

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

and PSF to the following formats:

• Raw font
• Windows font (FNT, FON)
• Sinclair Spectrum +3
• BDF
• C include file
• XBM image containing all characters
• Single PBM image for each character

Downloads

psftools-0.9.9.tar.gz

The UNIX-hosted PSF tools (169k).

Other PSF utilities

For DOS

• GRABFONT extracts the current font from an EGA or higher graphics card;
• while RIPFONT allows patient people with good eyesight to do the same with a CGA or Hercules card.

For GEM

• My GEM programs include SYSFONT, a font editor for GEM which supports loading and saving PSF1 fonts.

Links

• You should have the kbd package (which allows PSF files to be loaded) installed on your Linux system already; but in case you don't, it's here.
• The PSF file format
• XMBDFED is an editor for BDF (X-Window) fonts. It can import PSFs.