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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Bitmap font standard
Message-ID: <8633@sol.ARPA>
Date: 14 Apr 88 04:34:21 GMT
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Reply-To: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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OK, let's talk BDF for a change. It's a pretty reasonable standard and
has the advantage of being all text, no binary. As long as we are
talking screen fonts, don't worry about bitmap vs outline.

There is a vfont to bdf converter on the X11R2 tape and I also wrote
one. I have:

	vfont -> bdf
	bdf -> vfont
	bdf -> gf
	mac -> bdf

and I know of the existence of gf -> bdf. Actually I even have the
code.

I placed them on zap.mit.edu in ~ftp/pub/bdf-converters.tar a while
back.  I know, I know, you can't ftp, but I don't want to play postman
either.  If someone volunteers to be post office, I'll gladly send that
person the lot.

I also have the Hershey data, off Usenet and a collection of tools
for that. So anybody want to start a font archive?

	Ken