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From: rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Font Conversions
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Date: 13 Mar 91 13:25:40 GMT
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In article <9103121956.AA07590@nntp.ssdc.honeywell.com>, bergstr@SSDC.HONEYWELL.COM (-Darryl Bergstrom   Apollo/Symbolics/News/Mail Administrator) writes:
  
  Has anyone ever tried to convert any of the Apollo /sys/dm/fonts/* to 
  the XWindow snf format?  

I keep meaning to add this to the FAQ file, but I can't ever remember all
the details.  You use edfont to write out your font in bdf format, then use
bdftosnf to convert it to snf.  Inter-character spacing gets lost somewhere
along the way, so you have to set this to 0 in edfont and increase the width
of each glyph by the same amount.