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From: ahmet@hpubhga.gsr.hp.com (Ahmet Ertem)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Font Conversions
Message-ID: <8110003@hpubhga.gsr.hp.com>
Date: 15 Mar 91 10:03:56 GMT
References: <9103121956.AA07590@nntp.ssdc.honeywell.com>
Organization: HP AEO Bad Homburg, Germany
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In article <GLENN.91Mar13095541@huxley.huxley.bitstream.com> glenn@bitstream.com
(Glenn Parker) writes:

> 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?  
>
> Sure.  Under SR9.7, the X release contained a little utility called
> "gpr2bdf" that performed the necessary conversion.  I converted all the
> Display Manager fonts with no problems.  Since then, this little utility
> has vanished from the X release (but not from my disk :-).  Anyone from
> HP/Apollo want to comment?

At SR10 the edfont utility has a builtin gpr2bdf filter. It can be invoked
from the "File" pulldown menu. The /usr/bin/X11 directory contains a filter
"bdftosnf" that takes bdf-files or standard input and sends its output to
standard output.

You may wish to glance through the bdf-file and edit the "FONT" pathname
declaration to suit your needs before you send it through the bdftosnf
filter.

Hope this helps.
Ahmet Ertem.
System Engineer.
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