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From: brsmith@cs.umn.edu (Brian R. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: fb to snf converter
Message-ID: <1991May3.181554.15766@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 3 May 91 18:15:54 GMT
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In <9105021312.AA18146@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (der Mouse) writes:

>> 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.

>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.)

You can use "convertfont", which is included in the OpenWindows
distribution to convert any OpenWindows bitmap font into an snf font.

What's more, you can create any size bitmap font you desire from the
scalable Folio format font (.f3) files with "makeafb", also included in
OpenWindows.

(After doing it, though, "getbdf" sounds much easier... :-)
--
Brian
brsmith@cs.umn.edu