Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!MUNNARI.OZ.AU!grahamd From: grahamd@MUNNARI.OZ.AU Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Andrew Under OpenWindows Message-ID: <9101120304.13651@munnari.oz.au> Date: 12 Jan 91 01:51:07 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 40 > Does anyone know whether Andrew will run successfully under Sun's > OpenWindows, or do we have to have MIT X? We are looking to reduce the > amount of time we put into administering our X software, and one > possibility is to chuck the MIT X stuff in favor of OpenWindows. We'd > be interested in any opinions or data on the pros and cons of this > approach. We use both MIT X and OpenWindows, we are heading to OpenWindows for the same reason that you are. We have had one major problem though with getting Andrew to work properly under OpenWindows. Note: we only have Andrew patched to No 6 due to the SunOS4.1 problems, even though No 9 is out we have updated the src yet. Also, our Andrew was still compiled under MIT X, not OpenWindows. The problem is related to fonts. Basically, the converted fonts don't behave exactly like they do under MIT X, it is something to do with their widths. The problem manifests itself if you run ez on a document, what happens is that you get places in the text where there should be a space, however the individual font characters come out too wide and the space doesn't show. Also if you select a region, the inverted area doesn't match exactly the area you selected, sometimes starting halfway through a character. I have mailed on the andrew mailing list about this before and received no replies from anyone giving either a solution or expressing that they have the same problem. It could be just that I am converting the fonts wrongly, but since I am the only one who has posted on the mailing list saying what I think you have to do to convert them, I don't know. I even ftp'd at one point the converted fonts that someone else had made available, however had exactly the same problem. On another point, I have also had trouble with Andrew fonts when converted to MacX. Basically fdbbdf doesn't put enough of the information expected by some conversion programs, in the bdf file it creates. This results in the conversion program failing for that font, or producing a font that doesn't work properly. Any help with these problems would be appreciated. Graham Dumpleton (grahamd@otc.otca.oz.au)