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From: phr@web5h.berkeley.edu (Paul Rubin)
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Subject: Re: creating new font files in X11
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Date: 24 Feb 88 05:55:12 GMT
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In article <295@bacchus.DEC.COM> karlton@decwrl.UUCP (Philip Karlton) writes:
  In article <439@hub.ucsb.edu> mantak@hub.ucsb.edu () writes:
  >But, what is the format of the 'bdf' files?
  
  See .../X11/doc/bdf.ps.
  
  >What is the process needed for creating a new font file ?
  
  Emacs? Nobody that I know of has placed a bitmap editor that generates .bdf
  files into the public domain. Some commercial companies do sell fonts.
  
Yes, Emacs does an ok job at this.  I wrote a rudimentary font editor
in Emacs Lisp last summer that decodes the BDF entry for a character
into a picture made from spaces and asterisks, lets you edit it in
picture mode, and packs the picture back into BDF format.  It was
reasonably useful for examining/tuning existing fonts but probably
not too good for making whole new ones.  If interest warrants it,
I will attempt to dredge up a copy and post it here.