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Subject: Re: X11 on 300 series font question
Message-ID: <101950093@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 7 Feb 90 18:30:34 GMT
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/ hpcvlx:comp.sys.hp / jorgy@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Eric R. Jorgensen) /  3:59 pm  Feb  6, 1990 /
Being more accustomed to the mit-style of X11 servers and fonts, I am
unfamiliar with the cnf font format used in HPUX.  The problem I am
having is simply how do I add a font? The font I have is in bdf format.  

In mit land, one simply runs bdftosnf, runs mkfontdir, and does an
xset fp rehash.

I can't figure out how to do this with cnf fonts.  I've read the
(appropriate?) manuals, but haven't been able to find the information
I need.  

Thanks in advance,
jorgy

Eric R. Jorgensen			   internet: jorgy@boulder.colorado.edu
UnixOps/Distributed Computing Services 	   bitnet:   jorgy@colorado.BITNET
University of Colorado, Boulder  	   uucp: ...!{ncar|nbires}!boulder!jorgy
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By "cnf" do you mean "scf"?  The HP-UX X11 server uses the same font
formats as MIT.  To save disk space, we also allow the ".snf" font to
be passed through compress(1) resulting in a ".scf" font.  The HP
server will accept fonts in ".bdf", ".snf" or ".scf" format and do
whatever magic is necessary to use the font.  I.e., a ".bdf" font will
be run through bdftosnf(1) and a ".scf" font will be run through
uncompress(1) by the server.

Steve Hiebert
HP ITO R&D
Corvallis, OR