whaley@june.cs.washington.edu (Ken Whaley) (06/10/89)
The subject and summary lines say it all. I want to create a font of bitmaps (relatively small ones, although I'm not sure that matters) that I've designed. I've investigated using xfd, but it wasn't clear to me what to do with the font once I'd built one. It seems it would be easier just to add a bitmap to a font that's already loaded into the server, and has some empty slots. I don't care about maintaining consistency with the font character parameters, I just want to use bitmaps through the font mechanism (believe me, I *do* have reasons for this). And, I want to do this with CLX. Is this possible? Or, has someone out there actually used xfd to create a font and used it in an application? I'd be interested in hearing the step-by-step method for doing that, too. Thanks, -- whaley@june.cs.washington.edu
rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (06/10/89)
I just want to use bitmaps through the font mechanism You can't do this, period. At least, not without a protocol extension. And xfd is for viewing fonts, not for creating them. You need to create a new BDF file, and feed it through your server's font compiler.