[comp.windows.x] Use of Alternate Fonts in Sun XView

hlison@bbn.com (Herb Lison) (09/20/89)

We are having a problem getting Sun XView in using another set of
fonts that we specified.  We have converted the fonts using the
dumpfont utility supplied with XView, then run the bldfamily utility.
We then set the font path using the command:

	xset fp ../Openwindows/Sun3/lib/fonts/,../OurApp/data/xfonts/

The man page on xset refers to another utility called mkfontdir (?) which
does not seemed be supplie with Xview.

At any rate, our application initially comes up with the seemingly
appropriate fonts, but then the console goes haywire with error messages
indicating that the findfont operation has requested an invalid font.
Does anybody out there have any ideas what might be going on here?  The
Xview documentation is not very helpful on this subject.

Thanks in advance.

Herb Lison