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From: mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (der Mouse)
Subject: Re:  fb to snf converter
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Date: 2 May 91 13:12:12 GMT
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> I know I have seen this asked on the net before, but I don't remember
> seeing an answer, nor can I find anything regarding it in the FAQ.
> Is there a utility to convert OpenWindow FB fonts to fonts that can
> be used with X, such as SNF.

Speaking strictly to the technical issues, ignoring possible legal
reasons you wouldn't want to do this....  (I'm not a lawyer.)

You could always use getbdf to connect to the OW server and generate a
BDF representation of the font at some particular size.  (getbdf is
something I wrote to do precisely this: produce BDF for a font from an
arbitrary X server.  You can ftp it from 132.206.1.1, in X/getbdf.c, or
via mail from me if you can't ftp it for some reason.)

					der Mouse

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