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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Bitmap font standard
Message-ID: <736@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 88 03:24:43 GMT
Reply-To: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
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Summary: The format with the most converters wins.

Ok.  Let's try to get back on track here.  I want a way to use all those
nifty `foreach x (Amiga Atari Macintosh PC X Suntools)` low-resolution bitmap
fonts on my `foreach y ...` machine.  I'm not looking for a universal standard,
I'm just looking for an intermediate format that is semantically compatible
with all of the above font formats.

Since this discussion has been going on for a while without anyone saying
that they have any large number of converters, why don't we just pick up
on Adobe's Character Bitmap Distribution Format and write converters to/from
it?
-- 
-russ
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