PCF

File Format
Name	PCF
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Fonts PCF
Extension(s)	.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 0x01 "fcp".

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