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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
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Subject: Re: Widgets and Xlib
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Date: 28 Jan 89 22:13:47 GMT
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    I feel a little dumb for not being able to find the answer by cruising 
    through the literature, but for the life of me I can't figure out how
    to create a new font.  Are there any good tools out there?

The telephone?  Typewriter and paper?  There are no great tools provided
in our distribution for creating new font source files.  You can look in
R3 in contrib/fonts/utils for some simple tools, including one to convert
MetaFont GF files to BDF.  If you want quality tuned fonts, in BDF format,
at resolutions that match your displays, the best suggestion I can make is
that you go to font vendors and ask for them (and be willing to pay for them).
For example, the two font vendors (Adobe and Bitstream) who donated fonts for
R3 should be able to help you.