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From: kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley	)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: DECwindows under X11R4
Keywords: DECwindows, X11R4, PCF/SNF fonts, DPS
Message-ID: <1990Dec4.193629.2045@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 4 Dec 90 19:36:29 GMT
References: <1756@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1756@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> sfleming@zeus.cs.hw.ac.uk (Stewart T. Fleming) writes:
>I recently installed X11R4 ona DECStation 5200 running Ultrix 4.0
>Although most of the original DECwindows clients still work, the original
>fonts are in .pcf format and do not seem to be recognised by the new server.
>I have fixed this in the meantime by aliasing to standard fonts, but I would like
>the old fonts back !!  Is there any way to convert PCF to SNF, or is there an
>archive of DECwindows SNF fonts ?

Perhaps this ought to go in the FAQ; it's come up a couple of times in the 
past two days.

In any case, Jordan Hayes (jordan@morgan.com) has a "font extractor"
that you can use to get the pcf fonts from the Dec server and write
to a bdf file, which you can then compile to snf fonts.

I suppose I can also supply this program, which I got from Jordan; just 
giving credit where credit is due.

-- 
Kaleb Keithley                      Jet Propulsion Labs
kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov

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