Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!charon!piring.cwi.nl!jansteen From: jansteen@cwi.nl (Jan van der Steen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: decoding .bdf files Message-ID: Date: 21 Nov 90 08:57:14 GMT References: <3276@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Sender: news@cwi.nl Distribution: rec.games.misc Lines: 63 wolf@alesi.cipl.uiowa.edu (Mike Wolf) writes: >I have two files, standard.bdf and xconq.bdf, these are supposed >to be X11 font files encoded. How do I decode them? The README >file with the archives says to smply do 'make X11fonts', but I get >the following when I try this: >(cd lib; fc xconq.bdf; fc standard.bdf) >sh: fc: not found >*** Error code 1 >Stop. >What format are these files in and how do I decode them? >All help appreciated, thanks. >Michael >WOLF@MEL.CIPL.UIOWA.EDU Bdf files contain ascii data (bitmap distribution format). They specify a font by including a bitmap for each character. You can "compile" the font by running bdftosnf (which comes with the X11R[34] system): bdftosnf standard.bdf > standard.snf bdftosnf xconq.bdf > xconq.snf Next you execute: mkfontdir where is the directory where you installed the .snf files. This command will create a file "fonts.dir" with information about the fontname->filename mappings. After that you add that very directory to your fontpath: xset fp+ If the directory already was included in your fontpath you can replace the above line with a: xset fp rehash Finally, you can check to see if the fonts are known by the X-server by executing: xlsfonts | more Jan van der Steen -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jan van der Steen jansteen@cwi.nl Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jan van der Steen jansteen@cwi.nl Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands