From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 15 9:21:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C297837B423 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 09:21:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 51778 invoked by uid 100); 15 May 2001 16:21:28 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15105.22408.411873.216488@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:21:28 -0500 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using .inf/.pfb/.pfm fonts? In-Reply-To: <5536392@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein types: > Anyone know if gimp/x can use fonts with the extentions .inf/.pfb/.pfm? > > I think they are postscript type 1 fonts. The gimp just uses X fonts; one you get a font installed for X, it'll show up in the font list for the text tool in the gimp. pfb is normally a type 1 postscript font in binary format, and X can use those as is. Some applications require ascii format fonts. These normally have the extension .pfa. The t1utils port includes a tool that will convert .pfb files to .pfa. pfm is a printer font metric file, and I'm not sure how it would be relevant to X, though it might be useful in some applications. I'm not sure what a .inf file is. See the font tutoral at for instructions on installing .pfb fonts so that X can use them. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message