---
name: "gf2pbm"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "mftrace"
version: "1.2.20+git20191022.3b4bc2e-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gf2pbm"
---

# gf2pbm(1)

convert a character from a GF font file to PBM format

## NAME

gf2pbm - convert a character from a GF font file to PBM format

## SYNOPSIS

**gf2pbm** \[*options*\] *GF-file*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **gf2pbm** command. **gf2pbm** is a program that converts a single character from a METAFONT-produced GF font file to PBM format.  It is used internally by [**mftrace**(1)](/mftrace/1.md) to feed to [**autotrace**(1)](/autotrace/1.md) to create a Postscript outline description of the character.

## OPTIONS

- **-b**

  Dump a bitmap file.

- **-s**

  Show glyph size.

- **-n** *NUM*

  Process glyph number *NUM*.

- **-o** *FILE*

  Output to *FILE* instead of *stdout*.

- **-h**

  Show summary of options.

- **-d**

  Display debugging information.

## EXIT STATUS

**gf2pbm** exits with status 0 if successful, status 1 if the requested glyph did not exist and status 2 if there was some other error.

## SEE ALSO

[**mf**(1)](/mf/1.md), [**pktrace**(1)](/pktrace/1.md).\

## AUTHOR

**gf2pbm** is based on Paul Vojta's Xdvi, and was munged by Han-Wen Nienhuys \<hanwen@xs4all.nl\>.  This manual page was written by Julian Gilbey \<jdg@debian.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).