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From: bts@unx.sas.com (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Converting fonts to and from X
Message-ID: <1990Oct09.201203.684@unx.sas.com>
Date: 9 Oct 90 20:12:03 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
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To answer my earlier query on the subject:

Under 10.2, EDFONT can read in an Apollo-format font, and then
save it out into BDF format.  From here, you can use bdftosnfto
convert it to snf format.  

Then use mkfontdir in the directory where the font resides,
   *OR*
move it to one of the "standard" font directories.
In either case, you will probably need to edit the resulting
fontdir, since bdftosnf preserves the original (DM) file name as the alias,
and this is usally not correct.

Then, if you did not move the font to one of the "standard" places,
use xset +fp <dir> to add the directory as a place to look, or use
xset fp rehash if you added it to a place already on your path.

Now you can use the font.  To verify this, try xfd first.
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