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From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: IRIX 3.1G implementation of X
Summary: dumpfont
Message-ID: <41163@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 30 Aug 89 23:47:44 GMT
References: <17810@ut-emx.UUCP>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In article <17810@ut-emx.UUCP>, russo@chaos.utexas.edu (Tom Russo) writes:
> Well, we got the Revision G tapes installed along with SGI's X development
> system, and I must say it is a bit irritating that SGI has chosen to implement
> X fonts in a nonstandard way.  We have some X software that used to run under
> the alpha release of X, but it uses TeX fonts (made into X fonts with some
> application programs), so it no longer works on the Iris.  
> 
> So, is there any way to force the IRIX X system to use X fonts as
> generated by bdftosnf.  Has anybody out there gotten TEXX2 to run on a
> 4D running 3.1G?  Is there a better TeX previewer around?  Has SGI got
> any plans to support true X fonts in the next release?

If you have bdf files you can use the standard dumpfont and bldfamily
utilities to convert them to fonts suitable for use by the SGI font
manager libfm.a (which is used by both X and NeWS).

If you have programs that generate "snf" files then you are asking for
trouble.  There is no guarantee that one X server's "server natural form"
is the smae as another's.  Even if the structures are the same the bits
may be ordered differently.
--
	-Mark