[comp.fonts] Font Question

harkcom@potato.pa.Yokogawa.Co.jp (Alton Harkcom) (11/11/90)

In article <HARKCOM.90Oct27144414@potato.pa.Yokogawa.Co.jp>
   harkcom@potato.pa.Yokogawa.Co.jp (Alton Harkcom) writes:

 =}   I recently tried to make a rather small 2 byte font which used the 7x14
 =}font from X11R4 and my additions up in 1nnnnnnn nnnnnnnn. After running it
 =}through bdftosnf, I got back an extremely large font of 1.1 MEGS! And
 =}what's worse, the X server jumps up over 2 MEGS when I load it.
 =}
 =}   Are all of the undefined characters between 00000000 nnnnnnnn and
 =}1nnnnnnn nnnnnnnn taking up memory?

   Well, I got -0- in the way of replies to this one. But I realize that
my original post was to the wrong newsgroup... Sorry about that.

   Anyway, I think I am correct in my original assumption that the fonts
are handled this way due to the method of storage and retireval. The
method is simple, and fast (though it can waste resources. But why does
the server suck up more than twice the font's size to hold it when
smaller fonts barely take up their size in memory?

   HELP!!!!!
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