From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Dec 19 13:55:54 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA14126 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 13:55:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (root@po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA14121 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 13:55:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from skipper.eng.umd.edu (skipper.eng.umd.edu [129.2.103.24]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA21737 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 16:55:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by skipper.eng.umd.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA16593 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 16:55:43 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: skipper.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 16:55:42 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@skipper.eng.umd.edu To: FreeBSD Ports Subject: X11 fonts stuff Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I just completed my last final, I'm back to coding (YA!!!) I was looking at scitext first. Finally figured out what the install of the new code wanted by looking at the sources, now I just have to deal with the fonts questions. scitext currently dies when the X server can't load the fonts. The fonts I can find with scitext are comprised of two sets of files, ending with .afm and .pfa. The files seem to be Adobe Postscript files, with the .afm files being the font metrics, and the .pfa files being the font bit encodings. Does anyone know how to deal with these two file types so that an X11 server can use them? I'm not talking about the xset stuff, or mkfontdir, this Adobe format doesn't seem to be directly recognizable by the X server, and I don't know how to convert the files to a format the X11 _does_ know. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------