[comp.windows.news] X11/NeWS font addition problem

rjf@canon.UUCP (Robin Faichney) (12/11/89)

I have a problem in adding a font to xnews.  It is an X11 .bdf format, converted
to X11/NeWS .fb using convertfont.  I then ran bldfamily, which produced a .ff
file, but complained about an unknown encoding.  Seems that a map file is needed
in such cases, which I obviously do not have.  I put the .ff and .fb files in
the font directory anyway, just in case, but xlsfonts doesn't recognise them and
the prog concerned fails to load them.  Can anyone suggest a way round this?

I suppose it might be relevant that the prog is xtrek, the font xtrek, the
machine a SPARCstation 1 and the OS 4.0.3c.

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