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From: hj412fr@duc220.uni-duisburg.de (Frik)
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Subject: Re:  Converting fonts to and from X
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Date: 10 Oct 90 08:05:36 GMT
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	Date: 9 Oct 90 20:12:03 GMT
	From: bts%mozart@rti.uucp  (Brian T. Schellenberger)
	Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
	Subject: Converting fonts to and from X
	Message-Id: <1990Oct09.201203.684@unx.sas.com>
	Sender: apollo-request@umix.cc.umich.edu
	To: apollo@umix.cc.umich.edu
	
	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.
	-- 
	-- Brian, the Man from Babble-on.		bts@unx.sas.com
	-- (Brian Schellenberger)
	"And when the votes were cast, the winner was . . .
	 Mister James K. Polk, Napolean of the stump."        -- THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS.
	
Actually, I have tried this sort of conversion quite often, as I detest the 
standard X-fonts. But when I try to convert those eye-saving DM-fonts I am
used to (say f7x13) the resulting BDF (and SNF) font does not come out right
in programs like xterm, emacs, epoch etc.: The metrics, in particular the
inter-character spacing is way too small. Have you observed this too? Do you
have any suggestions?

Anyone like to comment on enhancements to the X-environment in areas such
as standard fonts, standard colors, STANDARD CLIENTS which are vital to
user-acceptance?

Martin Anantharaman

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