schwartz@esl.ESL.COM (Paul D. Schwartz) (06/06/90)
I am trying to create a coustom symbol font. It is not clear how I can use bitmap to create the font. Has anyone out there done this? Any tip? Thanks in advance. P. Schwartz
rlh2@ukc.ac.uk (R.L.Hesketh) (06/07/90)
In article <249@esl.ESL.COM> schwartz@esl.com (Paul D. Schwartz) writes: >I am trying to create a coustom symbol font. It is not clear >how I can use bitmap to create the font. Has anyone out there >done this? Any tip? Try using the "xfed" (X Font EDitor) that came as part of the contributed software to X11R4 ... in ./contrib/clients/xfed Its not a complete BDF editor but its the nearest thing to it that I can find.
janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) (06/08/90)
I've done this using bitmap. First I wrote a PBM utility, pbmtohex, which will generate a hex encoding, of the form used by BDF, from an xbm file. Then I used bitmap to edit a bitmap, and shoved it into a BDF file. Very tedious. Bill -- Bill Janssen janssen.pa@xerox.com (415) 494-4763 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304