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Command Line Arguments
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<CODE>$ pfaedit [-options] [filenames]<BR>
$ pfaedit [-script] scriptfile [arguments]</CODE>
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The filenames may specify any number of files in one of the font formats
that PfaEdit recognizes (various postscript formats, truetype, opentype,
mac resource, bitmap).
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Some files (.ttc or mac resource) may contain more than one outline font.
You may pick which font you want by following the filename with the fontname
in parentheses, thus:<BR>
<CODE> $ pfaedit "gulim.ttc(GulimChe)"</CODE><BR>
will select the font GulimChe out of the font file gulim.ttc.
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PfaEdit recognizes the following options:
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-depth val
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Specifies that PfaEdit should search for a visual with the given depth
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-display name
<DD>
Specifies the name of the display on which PfaEdit will open its windows
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-help
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Bring up a <A HREF="helpmenu.html">browser</A> looking at this documentation.
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-version
<DD>
Prints out the source version and exits.
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-keyboard type
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Where type may be<BR>
ibm | mac | sun | ppc | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3<BR>
Allows you to specify the type of keyboard. Currently this is only relevent
when generating menus. The modifier keys are in different locations on different
keyboards (under different operating systems) and if PfaEdit knows what keyboard
you are using it can make the hot-keys have better labels.
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ibm | 0<BR>
Uses the Control and Alt keys
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mac | 1<BR>
Uses the Command and Option keys (Mac OS/X, Mac keyboard)
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ppc | 3<BR>
Uses the Control and Command keys (Suse ppc linux, Mac keyboard)
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sun | 2<BR>
Uses the Control and Meta keys
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-new
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Creates a new font.
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-nosplash
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PfaEdit will not display its splash screen on startup (for slow connections)
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-recover type
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Where type may be:
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none
<DD>
Do not attempt any automatic file recovery
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clean
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Clean out the directory containing files to be recovered
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auto
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recover any files which have been changed but which pfaedit crashed on before
saving.
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-script script-file
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If PfaEdit's first argument is "-script" then the argument that follows will
be treated as a <A HREF="scripting.html">script file</A> and all the remaining
arguments will be passed as arguments to that file. (The "-script" argument
may be omitted, and if the first argument is an executable file which whose
first line starts with "#!" and contains "pfaedit". This means that pfaedit
may be used as an interpretter. Ie. you can create a pfaedit script file
and type its name to your shell and pfaedit will be invoked to process that
file as a script file (passing any arguments to it)).
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-sync
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Do synchronous screen drawing. Slows things down, makes some things easier
to debug.
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-usage
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Display a brief description of the options
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-vc type
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Where type may be:<BR>
StaticGray GrayScale StaticColor PsuedoColor TrueColor DirectColor<BR>
(See the X manuals for a description of what these mean). PfaEdit will search
through the visuals in an attempt to find one with the desired VisualClass
(given here) and depth (given with the -depth option).
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