[comp.sys.sun] versatec font editor

ugcohen@cs.buffalo.edu (Scott Cohen) (04/25/89)

Hi, 

I'm looking for an editor for versatec format screen fonts.  Versatec is
the format used by sunview.  Does anyone know of such a beast?  If so,
where can I get (hopefully ftp) it from? 

Thanks in advance,
Scott Cohen

SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
USPS Research Group
ugcohen@cs.Buffalo.EDU (128.205.32.1)

[[ What's wrong with /bin/fontedit?  Or, do you need one that correctly
handles variable width fonts?  By the way:  there is a small but important
difference between Berkeley's standard "vfont" format and the one that Sun
uses:  the bitmaps for standard vfonts are byte aligned, but the bitmaps
for Sun vfonts are *word* aligned!  --wnl ]]

henry@cs.utexas.edu (05/09/89)

>I'm looking for an editor for versatec format screen fonts.  Versatec is
>the format used by sunview.  Does anyone know of such a beast?  ...

We haven't got an editor for vfonts, but what we do have is a pair of
programs to translate vfonts to and from an equivalent text representation
that can be edited with your favorite text editor.  This obviously isn't
as good as a "real" font editor running on a bitmap display, but it's a
whole lot more usable on an ASCII terminal!  It also makes it easy to
manipulate fonts with awk, sed, etc.  If people are interested, I can
polish this stuff up and make it available.

                                     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                 uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

dupuy@cs.columbia.edu (Alexander Dupuy) (05/18/89)

Try /usr/bin/fontedit.  It's really quite decent.

@alex
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