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From: daniel@osf.org (Daniel Dardailler)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Making font from bdf files
Keywords: bdftosnf, bdftopcf & mkfontdir
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Date: 24 Oct 90 15:13:54 GMT
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Reply-To: daniel@osf.org (Daniel Dardailler)
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BDF is the standard font interchange font format for the
X Windows System version 11 (it comes from Adobe).
If by 'making a font' you mean making a font available to the X window
server, then you right and you can will find these utilities (bdfto...)
on the X tape (or on the X ftp anonymous machine: expo.lcs.mit.edu).
Otherwise, a BDF file *is* already a font.

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