fong@itstd.sri.com (Martin Fong) (07/04/90)
I would like to create new, and extend existing, Andrew fonts.
Does Andrew have a font editor to support this, and if so, how may I
obtain it? (From my perusal of the X11R4 distribution, it's not
apparent where such an editor resides, although I have encountered wm
font utilities in overhead/fonts/cmd/.)
Thanks,
Martin Fong fong@itstd.sri.com
Senior Software Engineer (415) 859-4574
SRI International, EJ370
333 Ravenswood Avenue
Menlo Park, CA 94025ghoti+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Adam Stoller) (07/04/90)
Unfortunately the only program that we ever had for designing fonts was never ported to work under [and for] X11. I don't remember seeing any real font editor in the X stuff either. xfed doesn't really allow you to edit the font (as a bitmap) the way most of our fonts were created. Perhaps someone will eventually port or write a decent font editor for X11 - but as of yet I haven't seen one. --fish
janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) (07/06/90)
It is possible to use the X program `bitmap' to create a character, then mung it to hex via a simple program (I adapted one of the pbm filters', then hand-edit a BDF file. What a kludge! Bill
wdr@rchland.ibm.com (Wayne Richardson) (07/06/90)
Excerpts from ext.cmu.info-andrew: 3-Jul-90 Re: Andrew Font Editor? Adam Stoller@RCHGATE.rch (405+0) > ...xfed doesn't really allow you to edit the font (as a bitmap) the way > most of our fonts were created. I think xfed is actually a pretty nice font editor. The one I use (from Claus Gittinger ..!decvax!unido!sinix!claus) does let you edit the font as a bitmap, so you can tweak the chars as much as you want. Note that xfed is a bdf editor, so in order to edit the Andrew fonts you have to first make the bdf's from the fdb's. The Andrew make process makes them, but erases them when it's done. It goes something like this: sed -e 's/^$spacing \(.*\),.*$/$spacing \1,0/' cou8f.fdb > /tmp/cou8f.tfdb /andrew/bin/fdbbdf /tmp/cou8f.tfdb >/tmp/cou8f.bdf /usr/bin/X11/bdftosnf /tmp/cou8f.bdf >cou8f.snf rm -f /tmp/cou8f.bdf /tmp/cou8f.tfdb -wr