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RE: adding .fon fonts
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- Subject: RE: adding .fon fonts
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 06:49:27 -0400
You cannot use *.fon with XFree86. I do remember seeing a utility somewhere
On the Internet which claims to convert *.fon from win32 to *.pcf files.
I never tried it and I do not have URL for it. If you can convert them to
*.pcf, then gzip it... Then copy to a
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/subdirectory-of-your-choice
And run mkfontdir to create aliases files, you should be fine.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John A. Turner [mailto:john.turner@pobox.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 8:17 PM
> To: Cygwin XFree86 mailing list
> Subject: adding .fon fonts
>
>
> keep in mind that I know little about X internals, or even X
> programming - when it comes to X, whether on Unix or Win2k,
> I'm purely a luser
>
> my question is, if I have some .fon fonts, is it possible to
> use them with cygwin/xfree86? I see that all the standard
> fonts are .pcf - if that's what's required, can .fon fonts be
> converted to .pcf?
>
> thx,
>
> -John Turner
>