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- From: walsh@cs.umass.edu (Norman Walsh)
- Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.answers,news.answers
- Subject: comp.fonts FAQ.6.Sun-Info
- Followup-To: poster
- Date: 21 Jun 1993 13:19:16 GMT
- Organization: Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst)
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- Summary: This posting answers frequently asked questions about fonts.
- It addresses both general font questions and questions that
- are specific to a particular platform.
- Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu comp.fonts:9146 comp.answers:1074 news.answers:9623
-
- Posted-By: auto-faq 2.4
- Archive-name: fonts-faq/part8
- Version: 1.4.1
-
- Subject: Chapter 6
-
- Sun Information
-
- Subject: 6.1. Please help!
-
- Someone mailed a file of Sun-related font tips. Unfortunately, I
- cannot find the file. If you have any suggestion for this section
- (or if you are the person that mailed me the other list), please
- forward your suggestions to norm.
-
- Subject: 6.2. Fonts Under Open Windows
-
- The following information regarding fonts under Open Windows was
- stolen from Liam R.E. Quim's <lee@sq.com> Open Windows FAQ. The
- original author was Rick Heli <Rick.Heli@Eng.Sun.COM>.
-
- Subject: 6.3. Does OpenWindows support Type 1 PostScript fonts?
-
- Type 1 fonts are supported starting with the NeWSprint 2.0 and
- Solaris 2.0 (OpenWindows 3.0.1) releases.
-
- There are also 57 F3 format fonts supplied with OpenWindows which
- are fully hinted. Documentation on the F3 font format and the F3
- font interpreter, TypeScaler, is available from Sun.
-
- The TypeScaler product is separately licensable from SunPics (the
- printing arm of Sun Microsystems). If you're interested in
- licensing this product, Rick Heli can put you in touch with
- Marketing to work out the arrangements. TypeScaler does not appear
- as a standalone portion of OpenWindows, though it is resident
- within the X11/NeWS server.
-
- Subject: 6.4. Improving font rendering time
-
- Although the Sun type renderer (TypeScaler) is pretty fast, it's
- not as fast as loading a bitmap. You can pre-generate bitmap fonts
- for sizes that you use a lot, and you can also alter and access the
- font cache parameters. If you have a lot of memory you might want
- to increase the font cache size.
-
- $ psh -i
- Welcome to X11/NeWS Version3 <--- psh will say this at you
- currentfontmem = % type this line ...
- 300 % and here's what my server was using -- 300 Kbytes
- 1024 setfontmem
- % Just to check:
- currentfontmem =
- 1024
-
- See pp. 328ff of the NeWS 3.0 Programmer's Guide. You need to say
- psh -i so that the PostScript packages are loaded - see the psh man
- page.
-
- Subject: 6.5. Making bitmap fonts for faster startup
-
- Sun supports the F3 scalable outline format. These descriptions are
- stored in .f3b files. The makeafb program is used to create a
- bitmap font at a particular size which is stored in a .afb file,
- which is an Adobe ASCII format for font bitmaps. X11/NeWS really
- prefers a binary format though for speed and other reasons, so
- convertfont is used to "compile" the font into a font binary or .fb
- file.
-
- Once this is done, X11/NeWS needs to understand the relationship
- between the .f3b file and all the bitmaps which are based on it.
- Thus, the bldfamily program makes these correlations and stores the
- data in the font family or .ff file.
-
- bldfamily also builds a global list of all fonts stored in the
- working directory, writing the results out to the file
- Families.list. If one wishes to create font aliases, these can be
- added to the Synonyms.list file by hand and bldfamily will then add
- them to Families.list for you. X11/NeWS uses Families.list to
- construct the font list it advertises to applications.
-
- To go from F3 to BDF, use makeafb to generate a bitmap font in .afb
- format. Then use one of convertfont's many options to change to
- this to .bdf format and from there it should be clear.
-
- $ mkdir $HOME/myfonts
- $ cd $HOME/myfonts
- $ makeafb -20 -M $OPENWINHOME/lib/fonts/Bembo.f3b
- Creating Bembo20.afb
- $ convertfont -b Bembo20.afb
- Bembo20.afb->./Bembo20.fb
- Chars parameter greater than number of characters supplied.
- $ ls
- Bembo20.afb Bembo20.fb Synonyms.list
- $ bldfamily
- * Bembo ./Bembo.ff (Encoding: latin)
- cat: ./Compat.list: No such file or directory
- $ xset +fp `pwd`
- $ xset fp rehash
-
- If you want the server to see your new font directory every time,
- add this directory to your FONTPATH environment variable in one of
- your start-up files, e.g. .login or .profile.
-
- Subject: 6.6. Converting between font formats (convertfont, etc.)
-
- You can also use F3 fonts with an X11 server, by converting them to
- a bitmap (X11 bdf format) first. Your license restricts use of
- these fonts on another machine, and unless you have NeWSPrint you
- shouldn't use them for printing. Having said all that... you can
- use makeafb and convertfont to generate bdf files that you can
- compile with bdftosnf or bdftopcf.
-
- Use mftobdf (from the SeeTeX distribution) to convert TeX pk fonts
- to X11 bdf format, which you can then use with either X11 or
- OenWindows.
-
- Subject: 6.7. Xview/OLIT fonts at 100 dpi
-
- There aren't any. More precisely, the various text fonts, such as
- Lucida Typewriter Sans, are available at 100 dpi, and in fact are
- scalable under OpenWindows. The glyph fonts are bitmaps, and don't
- scale very well.
-
- Subject: 6.8. Where can I order F3 fonts for NeWSprint and OpenWindows?
-
- 600 F3 fonts are available for unlocking from Printer's Palette, a
- CD available with NeWSprint 2.0.
-
- In addition, F3 fonts are available from the following sources:
-
- Linotype AG Linotype Company
- Mergenthaler Allee 55-75 425 Oser Avenue
- 6236 Eschborn Germany Hauppague, NY 11788
- 49/(61 96) 4031 (800) 336-0045
- FAX 011/49/6196-982185 FAX 516-434-2055
- attn: F3 Font Production attn: F3 Font Production
-
- Monotype Plc. Monotype Typography
- Salfords Redhill RH1 5JP 53 W. Jackson Boulevard Suite 504
- England Chicago, IL 60604
- 44/(737) 765959 (800) 666-6893
- FAX 011/44/737-769243 FAX (312) 939-0378
- attn: F3 Font Production attn: F3 Font Production
-
- U R W U R W
- Harksheider Strasse 102 One Tara Boulevard Suite 210
- D2000 Hamburg Germany Nashua, NH 03062
- 49/(40) 606050 (603) 882-7445
- 49/(40) 60605148 (603) 882-7210
- attn: F3 Font Production attn: F3 Font Production
-
- Bigelow & Holmes Autologic
- P. O. Box 1299 1050 Rancho Conejo Boulevard
- Menlo Park, CA 94026 Newbury Park, CA 91320
- 415/326-8973 (800)235-1843, or (805)498-9611 in CA
- FAX (415) 326-8065 FAX (805) 499-1167
- attn: F3 Font Production attn: F3 Font Production
-
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