Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!ukc!harrier.ukc.ac.uk!rlh2 From: rlh2@ukc.ac.uk (R.L.Hesketh) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Using Bitmap to create fonts Message-ID: <4873@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> Date: 7 Jun 90 07:38:35 GMT References: <249@esl.ESL.COM> Reply-To: rlh2@ukc.ac.uk (Richard Hesketh) Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Lines: 10 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: In article <249@esl.ESL.COM> schwartz@esl.com (Paul D. Schwartz) writes: >I am trying to create a coustom symbol font. It is not clear >how I can use bitmap to create the font. Has anyone out there >done this? Any tip? Try using the "xfed" (X Font EDitor) that came as part of the contributed software to X11R4 ... in ./contrib/clients/xfed Its not a complete BDF editor but its the nearest thing to it that I can find.