---
name: "wine-font-convert"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "wine-bin"
version: "1.4.1-4"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/wine-font-convert"
---

# wine-font-convert(1)

wine(1) font converter

## NAME

wine-font-convert - [wine(1)](/wine/1.md) font converter

## SYNOPSIS

**wine-font-convert** \[ **-q** \] \[ **-c** *charset* \] \[ **-t** *fontdir* \] \[ **-b**  *bdftopcf* \] \[ **-f** *fnt2bdf* \] \[ **-p** *pattern* \] *windir*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **wine-font-convert** command.

**wine-font-convert**  scans *windir* and its subdirectories for bitmap-fonts in Windows™ format, converts them to PCF-fonts and installs them. If X is running, the X fontpath is re-adjusted.

## OPTIONS

- **-q**

  Quits operation.

- **-c** *charset*

  Specifies the charset name for OEM\_CHARSET fonts. (Default: winsys)

- **-t** *fontdir*

  Specifies the directory to install the converted fonts in. This directory should be a known font directory to X. (Default: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc)

- **-b** *bdftopcf*

  Specifies the name of the program to call for bdf to pcf conversion. (Default: /usr/X11R6/bin/bdftopcf)

- **-f** *fnt2bdf*

  Specifies the name of the program to call for winfont to bdf conversion. (Default: /usr/bin/fnt2bdf)

- **-p** *pattern*

  Specifies the *pattern* of the filenames to look for. By default, the utility will look for the pattern \*.fon (case insensitive).

- **-?**

  Shows a short help message.

## SEE ALSO

[**wine**(1)](/wine/1.md), [**fnt2bdf**(1)](/fnt2bdf/1.md), [**bdftopcf**(1)](/bdftopcf/1.md)

## AUTHOR

Copyright 2000 Peter Ganten

This manual page was written by Francois Wendling \<frwendling@free.fr\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).