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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: NEED: 'fc'
Keywords: X11, Font, Help
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Date: 3 Mar 91 23:15:53 GMT
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In article <1991Mar2.173911.18140@cm.cf.ac.uk>, bharat@cf-cm.computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Bharat Mediratta) writes:
|> Hi.  I recently downloaded XConq and tried to compile it.
|> However, the fonts that come with it are in a '.bdf' 
|> format (for transferring.)

  The BDF font format is a machine-independent format with no non-ASCII
characters in it.

|> The Makefile uses a program
|> called 'fc' to convert these fonts back into the proper
|> format (which appears to be .snf)

  First of all, I have no idea what "fc" is, but if your system is running a
recent version of X, then you should be able to use the "bdftosnf" program to
convert fonts from BDF to SNF format.

  Second, SNF isn't the "proper" format for the fonts, it's simply a
machine-dependent format that can usually be read and understood faster by X
servers.

  Third, if you're running a recent X server, it can probably do the
conversion from BDF to SNF automatically when it loads the font, although that
will be a little slower.  See the man page for "mkfontdir" to find out how to
convince the X server that a particular directory is a font directory.

  I don't think you even have to do mkfontdir if you're running an X11R3
server and not an X11R4 server, but I'm not certain about that.

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