From 21b9596a98fbe051b1b194bdd4c99293233b7922 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jaseg Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 20:16:50 +0100 Subject: Added some bdf fonts --- host/matelight/fonts/exceed.txt | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+) create mode 100644 host/matelight/fonts/exceed.txt (limited to 'host/matelight/fonts/exceed.txt') diff --git a/host/matelight/fonts/exceed.txt b/host/matelight/fonts/exceed.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6882826 --- /dev/null +++ b/host/matelight/fonts/exceed.txt @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ + +Using 16-bit BDF fonts with Exceed +---------------------------------- + +Markus Kuhn -- 1999-08-17 + +Here are some notes for using ISO 10646-1 BDF fonts with the Exceed +X11 Server for MS-Windows from Hummingbird Communications Ltd. Exceed +requires fonts to be installed in the Microsoft FON format and not in +the BDF or PCF formats that are used by Unix X11 servers. + +The original Microsoft FON format was only designed for 8-bit fonts. +Exceed uses customized FON format which is compatible with Microsoft's +FON format but contains additional information for X clients such as +font properties and character metrics. This format supports 16-bit X +fonts (for Microsoft Windows a 16-bit X font in HCL FON format looks +like a set of 8-bit fonts). BDF and PCF fonts must be converted into +HCL FON format and included in the font database before they can be +used with Exceed. + +Xconfig provides all necessary tools for this operation (just open +Xconfig->Font->Compile Fonts dialog box, click Help and follow the +instructions). + +In more detail, installing a BDF font under Exceed works roughly as +follows: + + 1. Create a directory in your exceed_directory/font and call it anything + you want (in this example we call it "extra"). So we created the + directory exceed/font/extra. + 2. Transfer the uncompressed BDF file into the directory we just + created, so that we have a file exceed/font/extra/6x13.bdf. + 3. Open xconfig and go to Font. + 4. Click on Compile Fonts. + 5. Find your exceed/font/extra directory in the directory tree and + select List Files of Type: as *.BDF. + You will see your 6x13.bdf file and will be able to select it. + 6. Click on compile. + 7. Now if you go to the directory where the file is, you can move it + to your extra directory and remove .bdf file. + 8. Go to xconfig and double click on the fonts icon. + 9. Click on the ADD button. +10. Click on browse and find your extra directory. +11. Give it a name that you would like to be shown in the font database. +12. Make sure that Directory selected and Status set to Keep. +13. Click on OK. +14. Click on Rebuild Database and click on Done. + +Special thanks to Joyce Kam and George Halpert + from Hummingbird Communications Ltd. + for providing the above information. + +I am not an Exceed user myself, so if you have specific problems with +following the above instructions you might want to contact + directly. Please let me know if you have any +suggestion for making this description more useful. + +Update [2005-01-14]: Arnaud Desitter +reported that Exceed 9.0 now comes preinstalled with the 6x13 font + + -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1 + +in the file misc/6x13u.fon. -- cgit