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- From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
- Subject: Re: Dumping OW and running X11R5(Was: Speed
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.084937.1212@ericsson.se>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 08:49:37 GMT
- References: <PMURPHY.92Dec19221053@orangutan.cv.nrao.edu> <1992Dec21.125413.7374@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
- Sender: news@ericsson.se
- Reply-To: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
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- In article <1992Dec21.125413.7374@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
- wolf@merlin.mt.att.com (Thomas Wolf) writes:
- |> In article 92Dec19221053@orangutan.cv.nrao.edu
- |> pmurphy@nrao.edu (Pat Murphy) writes:
- |> "> ""TP" == Thad Phetteplace x4461 <tdphette@mke.ab.com> writes:
- |> "> "
- |> "> "TP> I think all you need to do is copy your openwindows fonts into
- |> "> "TP> your X11R5 font directory and rebuild your font database. Check
- |> "> "TP> out the man pages on xlsfonts and bldfamily.
- |> "> "
- |> "> "You can alternately add the OW fonts to your X server's font path with
- |> "> "the "xset fp+" and related commands. I run an X11R5 server, the tvtwm
- |> "> "window manager, and with this command in the startup scripts all
- |> "> "non-news OW applications seem to be happy.
- |> "> "
- |>
- |> OW used different font files than X11R4 (so the above wouldn't work). Can the
- |> X11R5 server read OW font files?
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- If I understand the situation correctly xnews uses postscript fonts
- which are completely incompatable with X11 fonts however OW has
- convertfont which can generate BDF format font files which can later be
- converted to X11 server files. I have found that some editting is
- required to achieve a correct file as the reported size is wrong.
- Otherwise I have generated several fonts that I use regularly.
-
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- Michael Salmon
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