sbc@INFORMATICS.WUSTL.EDU (Steve Cousins) (07/31/90)
I just got MacX, and am trying to run my ATK-based applications on the Mac screen. Surprisingly, they actually run fine, but of course MacX doesn't have any of the Andrew fonts. MacX has a tool to compile bdf fonts, but all I see in the andrew distribution are fdb fonts -- and they look different. Is there an fdb to bdf tool around, or how would you suggest adding the fonts to MacX? Has anyone tried this? Thanks for any details. Steve Cousins Medical Informatics Laboratory Washington University, St. Louis sbc@informatics.wustl.edu
janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) (07/31/90)
I just did this, by running a find script on the Andrew sources to find all .fdb files, and put them in a single directory, then running fdb2bdf on each file in that directory. Here's fdb2bdf. Note that it assumes you have fdbbdf on your search path (presumably in ${ANDREWDIR}/bin). #!/bin/csh sed -e 's/^$spacing \(.*\),.*$/$spacing \1,0/' ${1:r}.fdb > /tmp/${1:r}.tfdb fdbbdf /tmp/${1:r}.tfdb >${1:r}.bdf rm /tmp/${1:r}.tfdb Bill
nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) (07/31/90)
We're going through the same process with our Mac-based people here. Bill's information looks good, but does anyone know a way to automate the font compiling process that handles the bdf files once you get them on the Mac? Right now it's pretty tedious... Thanks. -- Nathaniel