fwp1@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) (01/08/91)
We are running Sun's Open Windows 2.0 and MIT's X11R4 servers on our systems. We have had some problems with the different font formats used by the two. We have some applications that install their own bdf fonts (like x3270) that can't be used with the openwindows server and fonts that come with openwindows that would be nice to have under MIT's server (so that things like the calendar manager look nicer using the MIT server). Do programs exist to translate font files between the two formats? Thanks in advance for any pointers. FWP -- -- Frank Peters Internet: fwp1@CC.MsState.Edu Bitnet: FWP1@MsState Phone: (601)325-2942 FAX: (601)325-8921
mleisher@nmsu.edu (Mark Leisher) (01/08/91)
OpenWindows 2.0 comes with a program called 'convertfont'. convertfont -x <fontname.fb> converts an OW font into a BDF font. convertfont <fontname.bdf> converts a BDF font into an OW font. Converting 2 byte per character fonts should be done with the -M command line flag set. After a conversion, you have to do a 'bldfamily' to reconstruct the server font list in that directory. Potential "gotcha": be careful about doing multiple conversions of the same font in the same directory without setting the font name, and possible the output filename. 'convertfont' and 'bldfamily' should be located in the OW bin directory. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- mleisher@nmsu.edu "I laughed. Mark Leisher I cried. Computing Research Lab I fell down. New Mexico State University It changed my life." Las Cruces, NM - Rich [Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille]