Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!rchland.ibm.com!wdr From: wdr@rchland.ibm.com (Wayne Richardson) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Andrew Font Editor? Message-ID: Date: 6 Jul 90 16:16:32 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Organization: The Internet Lines: 22 Excerpts from ext.cmu.info-andrew: 3-Jul-90 Re: Andrew Font Editor? Adam Stoller@RCHGATE.rch (405+0) > ...xfed doesn't really allow you to edit the font (as a bitmap) the way > most of our fonts were created. I think xfed is actually a pretty nice font editor. The one I use (from Claus Gittinger ..!decvax!unido!sinix!claus) does let you edit the font as a bitmap, so you can tweak the chars as much as you want. Note that xfed is a bdf editor, so in order to edit the Andrew fonts you have to first make the bdf's from the fdb's. The Andrew make process makes them, but erases them when it's done. It goes something like this: sed -e 's/^$spacing \(.*\),.*$/$spacing \1,0/' cou8f.fdb > /tmp/cou8f.tfdb /andrew/bin/fdbbdf /tmp/cou8f.tfdb >/tmp/cou8f.bdf /usr/bin/X11/bdftosnf /tmp/cou8f.bdf >cou8f.snf rm -f /tmp/cou8f.bdf /tmp/cou8f.tfdb -wr