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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
• DOS/Linux codepages (CP, CPI)
• Hercules WriteOn (WOF)
• Wyse-60 soft font
• BBC Micro soft font
• Plain text

and PSF to the following formats:

• Raw font
• Windows font (FNT, FON)
• Hercules WriteOn (WOF)
• DOS codepages (CPI)
• Sinclair Spectrum +3
• BDF
• C include file
• BSD 'wsfont' kernel header
• XBM image containing all characters
• Single PBM image for each character
• Plain text
• Wyse-60 soft font
• BBC Micro soft font

New in this release: Support for BBC Micro soft fonts (two-way). PPCGREEK and PPC860 codepages updated.

Downloads

psftools-1.0.7.tar.gz (535k): Source code for Unix-based systems.

psft107.zip (557k): Compiled programs for DOS.

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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.

For CP/M

• I've written a PSF loader for Amstrad CP/M (LDPSFSEA.COM, about two-thirds of the way down the page). Source is included so it may be possible to adapt it for other CP/M systems.

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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
• gbdfed is an editor for BDF (X-Window) fonts. It can import PSFs.

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John Elliott 2008-08-10