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

["Chahine M. Hamila" <mch at chaham dot com>]

I don't know if I sent it already, but anyway, I think you might find useful
utilities (including some that answer your needs) on Mark Leisher's homepage.

http://crl.NMSU.Edu/~mleisher/

Mohammed Elzubeir wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Mohammed Elzubeir
>
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