zliu@argosy.UUCP (Zaide (Edward) Liu) (08/15/90)
I would like to use X font to display text in Smalltalk, since the available smalltalk fonts are not that beautiful. However, I do not know the format of the x font files. I would appreciate if somebody tell me about the format of the x font files. By the way, has anybody done the work which reads from a X font file and generate the smalltalk font format. Any response is welcome. --- liu
mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (08/15/90)
> I would like to use X font to display text in Smalltalk, since the > available smalltalk fonts are not that beautiful. > However, I do not know the format of the x font files. There is no single format. Each server has its own format (many of them use the format chosen for the MIT sample server, but some (eg, DECwindows and I think some recent Sun versions) use a different format. However, there is the BDF format (Bitmap Distribution Format, I think it stands for) which is the de-facto standard interchange format. All (or almost all, certainly all civilized) X implementations provide a way to convert a BDF font to whatever that implementation's server format happens to be. To go the other way, I wrote a program getbdf which connects to an X server and goes through the necessary gyrations to upload a font, which it then dumps out in BDF format. (getbdf can be obtained by anonymous ftp to 132.206.1.1, in X/getbdf.c and X/mterm.src/mterm.aux, or by mailing me and asking.) BDF format documentation can be found on the MIT R4 tape in mit/doc/BDF. I know nothing about the format Smalltalk wants, converters to or from it, etc. der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu