bharat@cf-cm.computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Bharat Mediratta) (03/03/91)
Hi. I recently downloaded XConq and tried to compile it. However, the fonts that come with it are in a '.bdf' format (for transferring.) The Makefile uses a program called 'fc' to convert these fonts back into the proper format (which appears to be .snf) which I, unfortunately, lack. Does anybody out there know where I can get this program from? I am running X11 on a sun3 network. Cheers, Bharat
jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (03/04/91)
In article <1991Mar2.173911.18140@cm.cf.ac.uk>, bharat@cf-cm.computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Bharat Mediratta) writes: |> Hi. I recently downloaded XConq and tried to compile it. |> However, the fonts that come with it are in a '.bdf' |> format (for transferring.) The BDF font format is a machine-independent format with no non-ASCII characters in it. |> The Makefile uses a program |> called 'fc' to convert these fonts back into the proper |> format (which appears to be .snf) First of all, I have no idea what "fc" is, but if your system is running a recent version of X, then you should be able to use the "bdftosnf" program to convert fonts from BDF to SNF format. Second, SNF isn't the "proper" format for the fonts, it's simply a machine-dependent format that can usually be read and understood faster by X servers. Third, if you're running a recent X server, it can probably do the conversion from BDF to SNF automatically when it loads the font, although that will be a little slower. See the man page for "mkfontdir" to find out how to convince the X server that a particular directory is a font directory. I don't think you even have to do mkfontdir if you're running an X11R3 server and not an X11R4 server, but I'm not certain about that. -- Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 11 Ashford Terrace jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Allston, MA 02134 Office: 617-253-8085 Home: 617-782-0710