Chortkeh BDF Font Viewer

Chortkeh BDF Font Viewer is a tiny and portable application that enables you to view files with the Glyph Bitmap Distribution format (.bdf). It supports Unicode fonts up to 60x80 pixels.

No setup necessary

Since this is a portable program, there is no installation involved, so you can save the executable file anywhere on the disk and just click it to launch Chortkeh BDF Font Viewer. You can also save it to a pen drive or other removable storage unit to easily run it on any PC without installing anything on it.

Plain and simple interface

Made from a large window with an apparently outdated and minimalistic look, the interface is easy to understand, since it doesn't have too many options listed in its menus.
You can open .bdf-formatted files using the file explorer (drag-and-drop is not supported), preview the glyphs in the main app window, as well as examine font information regarding the file name, BDF version, PsotScript name, size, height, and maximum width.
Furthermore, you can click any glyph from the map to find out its name, encoding, width and height, together with the left and bottom offset.
There are no other notable options supplied by this software program. Unfortunately, it doesn't integrate a button for exporting the glyphs as bitmap images to be able to view them with any photo tool.

Evaluation and conclusion

As we expected, the app's impact on the computer's performance was barely noticeable, since it needed low CPU and RAM to function normally. It opened font files without hanging, crashing or showing error messages. Although it doesn't include rich features, Chortkeh BDF Font Viewer offers a simple and effective solution to viewing font files with the .bdf format.