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/
