mkfontdir under DECwindows
kris graham
graham at fuel.dec.com
Thu Aug 24 02:53:05 AEST 1989
>ok, i give - does anyone know how to install fonts under DECwindows?
>I looked at the man page for `dxfc' (their bdftosnf) and it doesn't
>say anything.
>mkfontdir doesn't exist, nor does it recognize their .snf format,
>and the DECwindow font directories don't have fonts.dir files.
>--
>Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Illinois (grunwald at flute.cs.uiuc.edu)
%man bdftosnf [ also, 'man xfc'']
NAME
bdftosnf - BDF to SNF font compiler for X11
SYNTAX
bdftosnf [-p#] [-s#] [-m] [-l] [-M] [-L] [-w] [-t] [bdf-
file]
DESCRIPTION
The bdftosnf command reads a Character Bitmap Distribution
Format (BDF) font from the specified file (or from standard
input if no file is specified) and writes an X11 server nor-
mal font (SNF) to standard output.
OPTIONS
-p# Force the glyph padding to a specific number. The
legal values are 1, 2, 4, and 8. -s# Force the
scanline unit padding to a specific number. The
legal values are 1, 2, and 4.
-m Force the bit order to most significant bit first.
-l Force the bit order to least significant bit first.
-M Force the byte order to most significant bit first.
-L Force the byte order to least significant bit first.
-w Print warnings if the character bitmaps have bits
set to one outside of their defined widths.
-t Expand glyphs in terminal-emulator fonts to fill the
bounding box.
SEE ALSO
X(1X), Xserver(X)
--
Christopher Graham
Digital Equipment Corp
Ultrix Resource Center
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