Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!arisia!roo!janssen From: janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Using Bitmap to create fonts Message-ID: Date: 8 Jun 90 01:33:36 GMT References: <249@esl.ESL.COM> Sender: news@parc.xerox.com Distribution: usa Organization: Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 11 In-reply-to: schwartz@esl.ESL.COM's message of 6 Jun 90 00:04:06 GMT I've done this using bitmap. First I wrote a PBM utility, pbmtohex, which will generate a hex encoding, of the form used by BDF, from an xbm file. Then I used bitmap to edit a bitmap, and shoved it into a BDF file. Very tedious. Bill -- Bill Janssen janssen.pa@xerox.com (415) 494-4763 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304