tschoole@blackbird.afit.af.mil (Tony L. Schooler) (06/07/89)
This is the second time I have posted this, so I will try to make this more interesting. Here goes... I NEED HELP REAL BAD!!!!!! (Hope this gets noticed...) I am cross posting this to alt.sources, comp.fonts, comp.laser-printers, comp.periphs.printers, comp.sources.d, comp.sources.wanted, comp.sys.dec.micro, comp.sys.dec, comp.text.desktop, comp.text, and comp.unix.ultrix by hand (one at a time, the hard way)! I am writing a new DVI printer driver with TPIC support for use with TeX / LaTeX text processing system. This driver is designed to work with Digital's LN03 and LN03 Plus laser printer. The TPIC support will only work on the LN03 Plus printer since I will be using the Tektronics emulation mode to do all my line drawing. So, what's stopping me, you ask? I need to know how to make an LN03 font file! The programmers manual does not tell you how to do this. It has the information on how to load the font files, select the font files, what to do if the font files have the same font ID, everything BUT how to create an LN03 font file. I have looked at another DVI printer driver for the LN03 printer and came to the conclusion that the writers really don't know how to make a font load file (I saw the comment in the program stating that they did not know what was going on but I didn't beleave it, after all it works) and must of copied the procedure from some other program. I have looked at octal dumps, program listings and LN03 manuals until my eyes have poped out of my head! The only things I have been able to learn is that each character in the font is separted by newlines (\n) and the data is in uncompressed sixel format (in some order that I cannot determine). Can anyone point me in the right direction, send me the required information, and/or example code (I'm not picky)? I cannot complete this project without this information. Thanking you in advance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Anthony Lamar Schooler From tschoole@blackbird.afit.af.mil | | Why me? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
leichter@CS.YALE.EDU (Jerry Leichter (LEICHTER-JERRY@CS.YALE.EDU)) (06/07/89)
In article <1143@blackbird.afit.af.mil>, tschoole@blackbird.afit.af.mil (Tony
L. Schooler) writes... that he needs to know the format of an LN03 font file.
The format is known as CFFF (Common Font File Format). It is not described in
the LN03 documentation, as Mr. Schooler has discovered. Rather, it has a
(large) document all its own. You should be able to purchase it from DEC.
I don't know the exact name, but it has Common Font File Format in it....
-- Jerry