daniel@osf.ORG (05/11/91)
I've just put on export:/contrib the sources of xfedor, a bdf/xbm/xpm
editor that I wrote 3 (or 4?) years ago.
It has a lot of problems (especially in the interface :) but it does a good
job in some case.
Following are the man page and the README.
Daniel Dardailler
PS: OSF has *nothing* to do with this stuff, in fact, nobody has nothing
to do with xfedor anymore (read also: don't try to report bugs to me),
that's why I'm releasing it PD.
XFEDOR(1) X Version 11 XFEDOR(1)
NAME
xfedor - font, cursor, icon editor (color too).
SYNTAX
xfedor [-f fontfile[.bdf]] [-b bitmapfile[.xbm]]
[-m mousefiles] [-p pixmapfile[.xpm]]
[-z] [-xy] [-f1 fontname] [-f2 fontname]
[-g +x+y] [-d host:display.screen]
DESCRIPTION
xfedor is an X Window System Version 11 client.
xfedor is essentially a font editor for X11 bdf files (V 2.1).
xfedor can also generates limited (128x128) bitmaps in X11 format
or in XPM 1 format (color) and has facilities for creating cursors.
xfedor don't make any use of various XDefaults files.
ARGUMENTS
-f fontfile
a bdf file to be read at startup.
(xfedor appends .bdf if there is no extention).
-b bitmapfile
bitmap file in X11 format : "include file C".
(priority to .xbm extensions)
-m mousefiles
two bitmap X11 files, mousefileFore and mousefileMask,
are looking for in $MAP directory. (as at run-time)
-p pixmapfile
pixmap file (color) in XPM format (ASCII editable)
(priority for .xpm extensions)
-rv
reverse video : white on black (default black on white).
-f1 fontname
font to be use in general interface
-f2 fontname
font to be use in mouse guide lines
+x+y
initial geometry of the main window (default 10,10).
-z, -xy
Pixmap format used in image transferts (XPutImage,XGetImage).
SHELL VARIABLES
BDF
directory for read and write bdf files.
default value is empty string (current).
SOS
directory where xfedor search help files (optional).
default is /usr/local/lib/X11/xfedor.
MAP
directory to read and write bitmap files from.
default value is empty string (current).
DISPLAY
default server name.
HOME
User home directory. Used as ~ replacement when it
appears as the first character of file name.
If the file name begins by a /, full path taken.
FILES
$SOS/*.sos help files:
(*.sos, with * = {BEZIERS,FILL,METRIC,ROTATE,
WRITE,CIRCLE,FONT,NUM,SAVE,CUTAP,GARB,SOS,
RECTANGLE,EDIT,LINE,RESIZE,TRANSLATE,default)
$MAP/Fore* bitmap files for cursor foreground
$MAP/Mask* bitmap files for cursor background
$BDF/*.bdf Bitmap Distribution Format Files.
$MAP/*.xbm Bitmap X11 file (#define ..)
$MAP/*.xpm XPM format file (color format in ASCII).
SEE ALSO
bitmap(X), bdftosnf(X), xsetroot(X)
AUTHORS
Daniel DARDAILLER
Known problems:
- very very old proprietary look&feelsick
- comments in french
- filer.c module (BDF reader/writer) has to be reviewed for new BDF
stuff and some bugs (COMMENT lines lost, unexpected changes in
read/write only actions...)
- xpm3 updated also needed, use the public libXpm instead of the
current private code.
- non Xt based => icccm problems, fixed geometry, lack of resources...
- not even X based originally, so don't expect something great.
- no Imakefile
Otherwise, It can still help to create mouse cursors, colored pixmaps and
possibly fonts (if you don't care about XLFD compliance at first).
Daniel Dardailler.