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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: creating new font files in X11
Message-ID: <7158@sol.ARPA>
Date: 26 Feb 88 14:58:23 GMT
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Reply-To: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
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In article <216@piring.cwi.nl> guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) writes:
|I know of sombody collecting programs to convert between bdf format and
|various other formats.  They may end up on the R2 tape.  I have
|contributed a converter from Macintosh fonts to bdf.  (K., speak up if
|you wish to receive mail to coordinate efforts!)

OK, ouch, stop twisting my arm. :-)

I have a couple of BDF to something converters. I was using BDF as
an UNFOL. I'm putting the lot on zap in ~ftp/contrib.

Here is what's in bdf-converters.tar:

Bdf2gf		BDF to GF (TeX generic font)
Bdf2vf		BDF to vfont
Mac2bdf		Mac to BDF
Remapbdf	Change glyph mappings in BDF files
Vf2bdf		Vfont to BDF

I'm also putting my small collection of extra screen fonts in
miscfonts.tar. Here is what's there:

4x6.bdf			cour-cap-r-12.bdf	screen-r-13.bdf
6x10b.bdf		cour-cap-r-14.bdf	screen-r-14.bdf
6x13b.bdf		cour-r-10.bdf		screen-r-7.bdf
9x15b.bdf		cour-r-12.bdf		serif-cap-r-12.bdf
apl-r-10.bdf		cour-r-14.bdf		serif-cap-r-14.bdf
cmr-b-14.bdf		cour-r-16.bdf		serif-cap-r-16.bdf
cmr-r-14.bdf		cour-r-18.bdf		serif-r-10.bdf
cour-b-10.bdf		cour-r-24.bdf		serif-r-11.bdf
cour-b-12.bdf		gallant-r-19.bdf	serif-r-12.bdf
cour-b-14.bdf		screen-b-12.bdf		serif-r-14.bdf
cour-b-16.bdf		screen-b-14.bdf		serif-r-16.bdf
cour-b-18.bdf		screen-r-11.bdf		vstadocfxb.bdf
cour-b-24.bdf		screen-r-12.bdf		vthack.bdf

Please don't ask me to mail these to you.  I'm done with fonts for a
while (the TeX fonts generated with bdf2gf looked less than acceptable
because the originals were from a WW engine) and I would like to do
something other than play postman.

	Ken