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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New fonts for XF86 Date: 2 Feb 1997 01:11:59 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5d0pkv$694@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5crol9$rn9$1@news.rosprint.net> <5cvm7o$ll3@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34865 As I wrote: > > How i can create new PCF font for X11?! (Or edit old) ... > > j@uriah 73% apropos pcf > bdftopcf(1) - convert X font from Bitmap Distribution Format to \ > Portable Compiled Format I forgot to add: you don't need to convert them at all, if your desire is just to make some tests. The X server (or the font server xfs, for that matter) understand BDF files as well, it's only that you might lose some speed. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)