[comp.text.tex] How to get from bdf to pbm?

regier@cogsci.berkeley.edu (Terry Regier) (11/27/90)

	Hi.  I've got an X11 font, in bdf and snf format, which I'd like
to convert for use in TeX.  Does anybody know of a fairly painless way
to go about this?  If I can get to pbm format, things look good.  Any
ideas?



Terry Regier				regier@cogsci.berkeley.edu
Computer Science, UC Berkeley

ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap) (11/28/90)

>	Hi.  I've got an X11 font, in bdf and snf format, which I'd like
>to convert for use in TeX.  Does anybody know of a fairly painless way
>to go about this?  If I can get to pbm format, things look good.  Any
>ideas?

There is (was?) a bdftogf converter in the X11R3 contrib tools, which I
think should be in expo.lcs.mit.edu:oldcontrib.

How big is your bdf font? That is, how many rows and columns of dots?
If it's for a screen, it will look miniscule on a laser printer.