commit b3509a3c96665faca579c09a0c6840d31ddb371a
parent 8b583bda32f5616c88f1a8791d38fc636dd57d6a
Author: Frederic Cambus <fred@statdns.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 12:54:12 +0100
Update README: more verbose description, and add placeholders.
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# bdftosfd
-bdftosfd is a [BDF][1] to [SFD][2] converter.
+bdftosfd is a [BDF][1] to [SFD][2] converter, allowing to vectorize bitmap
+fonts. It works by converting each pixel of a glyph to a polygon, which
+produces large and unoptimized SFD files which should be post-processed
+using [FontForge][3].
This is a work in progress, and assumes input fonts are 8x16 for now. It
-was originally created to create OpenType versions of [Spleen][3], and I'm
+was originally created to create OpenType versions of [Spleen][4], and I'm
curently working on making it a general purpose converter.
## Dependencies
@@ -33,6 +36,10 @@ The options are as follows:
bdftosfd outputs SFD data to **stdout**.
+### Post-processing
+
+### Producing OTF and TTF fonts
+
## License
bdftosfd is released under the BSD 2-Clause license. See `LICENSE` file for
@@ -50,4 +57,5 @@ GitHub: https://github.com/fcambus/bdftosfd
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyph_Bitmap_Distribution_Format
[2]: https://fontforge.org/en-US/documentation/developers/sfdformat/
-[3]: https://github.com/fcambus/spleen
+[3]: https://fontforge.org
+[4]: https://github.com/fcambus/spleen
