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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: creating new font files in X11
Message-ID: <20161@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 24 Feb 88 17:51:35 GMT
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Organization: Boston U. Comp. Sci.
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In-reply-to: mantak@hub.ucsb.edu's message of 23 Feb 88 20:46:22 GMT



>I guess that the *.snf are created from *.bdf files.
>But, what is the format of the 'bdf' files?
>What is the process needed for creating a new font file ?

There should be a document in the doc/ dir called bdf.ps which
describes the font format adequately, I've written programs using that
info. BDF is Adobe's Bitmap Distribution Format (I think that's right)
and the same information appears in one of the Adobe Postscript
manuals, maybe it's the Transcript looseleaf.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University