Around 1 o''clock on Apr 1, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:> Cannot find a fonttosfnt module there.Oops, I moved it to freedesktop.org... http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xapps/fonttosfnt/ -keith -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 228 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/attachments/20050331/edcb61d6/attachment.pgp
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Keith Packard wrote:> > Around 12 o''clock on Mar 31, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > > The converter is called fonttosfnt, and the most up-to-date version is > > the one somewhere in Keith''s CVS. > > http://keithp.com/cvs.html > > has instructions for accessing this repository.Cannot find a fonttosfnt module there. behdad> > It is almost there -- but as far as I''m concerned, I''ve moved on to > > greener pastures, and have no intention to go back to hacking fonts in the > > foreseeable future. > > For Unicode encoded bdf files, it works just fine -- it even merges multiple > sizes into a single output file. For non-Unicode bdf files, there''s more > work yet to be done. > > The missing pieces are those needed to capture the information in the BDF > file which isn''t normally in a TTF file in some form, and then some way to > regenerate the BDF file to test that no information is lost in the > transformation process. > > But, I''ve left this unfinished for several years now. Of course, if > someone else wanted to pick it up and finish it, we could eliminate all of > the BDF and PCF files in the X distribution once and for all. That would > be a huge boon to every OS distributor and X user... > > -keith > > >--behdad http://behdad.org/
Around 12 o''clock on Mar 31, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:> The converter is called fonttosfnt, and the most up-to-date version is > the one somewhere in Keith''s CVS.http://keithp.com/cvs.html has instructions for accessing this repository.> It is almost there -- but as far as I''m concerned, I''ve moved on to > greener pastures, and have no intention to go back to hacking fonts in the > foreseeable future.For Unicode encoded bdf files, it works just fine -- it even merges multiple sizes into a single output file. For non-Unicode bdf files, there''s more work yet to be done. The missing pieces are those needed to capture the information in the BDF file which isn''t normally in a TTF file in some form, and then some way to regenerate the BDF file to test that no information is lost in the transformation process. But, I''ve left this unfinished for several years now. Of course, if someone else wanted to pick it up and finish it, we could eliminate all of the BDF and PCF files in the X distribution once and for all. That would be a huge boon to every OS distributor and X user... -keith -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 228 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/attachments/20050331/f657accb/attachment.pgp