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From: ricks@EE.MsState.Edu (Rick Schumeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: font problem (more info)
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Date: 19 Sep 90 23:03:15 GMT
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Ok, I guess maybe I should have included some more info on my font
problem.  I retrieved a program from comp.sources.x which included a
bdf font, which I ran bdftosnf on.  The resulting snf font looks great
on a monochrome SparcStation 1+ (SunOS 4.1, X11R4) when displayed with
xfd.  However, it looks real bad when displayed on a color station.
It looks like each character was drawn twice - once correctly and
another time with an x offset of half the character width.

Here is the bdf file, up to the first character's bitmap:

STARTFONT 2.1
FONT demofont
SIZE 64 72 72
FONTBOUNDINGBOX 64 64 0 63
STARTPROPERTIES 3
FONT_ASCENT 0
FONT_DESCENT 64
DEFAULT_CHAR 32
ENDPROPERTIES
CHARS 128
STARTCHAR H00
ENCODING 0
SWIDTH 64 0
DWIDTH 64 0
BBX 64 64 0 -64
BITMAP
{ bitmap deleted }
ENDCHAR

If I run getbdf on the snf file, I get the following messages:

getbdf: no X resolution property found on demofont, assuming 90
getbdf: no Y resolution property found on demofont, assuming 90

I also get this bdf file:

STARTFONT 2.1
COMMENT Generated from X font `demofont' by getbdf
FONT demofont
SIZE 64 90 90
FONTBOUNDINGBOX 64 64 0 -64
STARTPROPERTIES 9
FONT_ASCENT 0
FONT_DESCENT 64
DEFAULT_CHAR 32
FONT "demofont"
POINT_SIZE 640
WEIGHT 117
RESOLUTION 99
X_HEIGHT 0
QUAD_WIDTH 64
ENDPROPERTIES
CHARS 128
STARTCHAR 0
ENCODING 0
SWIDTH 800 0
DWIDTH 64 0
BBX 64 64 0 -64
BITMAP
{ bitmap deleted }
ENDCHAR

The returned bitmaps are correct.  The differences appear to be in
SIZE, FONTBOUNDINGBOX and SWIDTH.

Any suggestions as to why this won't display correctly on a color
station would be greatly appreciated.

Rick Schumeyer
ricks@ee.msstate.edu
Drawer EE, Mississippi State, MS, 39762.	(601)325-3660