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From: sb2v+@andrew.cmu.edu (Scott Elliott Breach)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X11 fonts
Message-ID: <QZxLPvS00WB4E_Tlle@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 90 21:02:51 GMT
Organization: Class of '90, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Is there any information available about the fonts for X?
I would like to know something about their structure so
that I could use them in another application.  The scenario
goes something like this...I read in a font file...I take the
information there and convert it to some suitable form...
I display the information by writing directly into the
frame buffer for a different display.  I have no problem
putting bitmap images onto the display, but I don't want to
have to create all of the bitmaps for all of the fonts I
might want to display.  If I could somehow just use the
fonts that are already available on X, I would have a
pre-made font library....and all I would have to do is
figure out how to read that library.



Scott