crm@CS.DUKE.EDU (Charlie Martin) (10/21/87)
How would one generate fonts for X with Metafont?
crm@CS.DUKE.EDU (Charlie Martin) (10/21/87)
How would one generate fonts for X with Metafont? -- sorry, forgot a signature last try. Charlie Martin (crm@cs.duke.edu,mcnc!duke!crm)
DAN@IBM.COM (Walter Daniels) (10/22/87)
Well one way is to run AIX on the IBM RT/PC. It uses Metafont to generate its fonts.
ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) (10/22/87)
You wouldn't. METAFONT doesn't work well when generating low-res fonts. By low-res I mean below 200 dpi or so. Quantization effects start to come in and the bitmaps need tuning. This is time consuming. Take a look at the VorTeX previewing fonts. Some effort was put into tuning the fonts in the first release (118 dpi). In the second (120 dpi) they seemed to have given up - there are several MB of fonts and it's only a previewer after all. But if you still want to try, it shouldn't be hard to write a pxl font to X font converter. I say shouldn't with the disclaimer that I have not done this, although I have done similar conversions. You can find a description of the format of pxl, pk and gf fonts in past issues of TUGBOAT. Ken