Re: position-independent glyphs [was Re: arabic-linux]

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at fakkir dot net>]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 01:44:45PM -0700, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> 
> Chahine, having looked at the "default" font for Akka (since you'd mentioned
> you had these position-independent glyphs); is there anyway of getting these
> fonts converted over to .pcf or .bdf -- .fnt is an old DOS format (from what
> I read); the only tool that I've been able to find that would do anything
> with it is 'fnt2bdf' which must be run under 'wine'.
> 
> Is there anyone out there that is running 'wine' (windows emulation under
> linux) that might consider simply running,
> 
>   fnt2bdf chahine_fonts.fnt > new_fonts.bdf
> 
> If so, please let me know, I'll supply the .fnt file is you don't have it.
> 

fnt2bdf doesn't like iso06b.fnt (I think it expects it to be a MS-Windows
encoded file). I get the following output:

bash-2.05$ fnt2bdf iso06b.fnt 
Corrupt or invalid file.


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Mohammed Elzubeir

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