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From: bts@unx.sas.com (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Building font using bdf files
Keywords: bdftosnf, bdftopcf and mkfontdir
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.022110.1259@unx.sas.com>
Date: 29 Oct 90 02:21:10 GMT
References: <180@sdrc.UUCP>
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
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In article <180@sdrc.UUCP> spsisira@sdrc.UUCP (Sisira Jayasinghe) writes:
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|   I am trying to create a font using a bdf file. I was told
|that I need to convert the bdf file to either snf or pcf file
|using bdftosnf or bdftopcf respectively. Then feed this file
|to mkfontdir to get the required font. My problem is I do not have
|any of these utilities her at SDRC.

If you do not have these utilities, then you do not have X windows.
If you do not have X windows, then snf/pcf are not what you want to
convert the font to.  If you let us know what you *do* have and what
you are trying to convert the font to (PostScript, TeX, some other
windowing system?), then somebody here may be able to tell you what
to use to convert it.
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