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From: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes)
Subject: Re: font editor
Message-ID: <90May4.103114edt.735@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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Date: 4 May 90 14:32:06 GMT
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barshay@Stars.Reston.Unisys.COM ( Unisys) writes:
>    Is there a font editor available for X windows?  Can I use the SunView
>font editor to make a font and then convert it to X windows?
>    Thanks (a new X windows person)   JANE

No real font editor, if you want to create new fonts.  If you just want
to touch-up existing fonts, or look at existing fonts in detail, xfed
in R4 contrib might be useful.

vf2bdf in contrib/clients/xtroff/fontstuff in R4 contrib should be
able to convert a Sun vfont to BDF, but it's been a long time since
that was tested!

R3 also had a slew of BDF utilities in contrib/fonts/utils, including
program to convert BDF to vfonts, BDF to TeX/MetaFont gf, etc.  Once a
font is converted to vfont, you can also use vft2ch in
contrib/clients/xtroff/fontstuff to convert to a simple character
format, edit with your favourite text editor, and convert back with
ch2vft.

	Mark.