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- From: walsh@cs.umass.edu (Norman Walsh)
- Newsgroups: comp.fonts,news.answers
- Subject: comp.fonts FAQ.5.Sun-Info
- Summary: This posting answers frequently asked questions about fonts.
- It addresses both general font questions and questions that
- are specific to a particular platform.
- Message-ID: <WALSH.92Dec7141616@ibis.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 7 Dec 92 19:16:16 GMT
- Expires: 8 Jan 93 00:00:00 GMT
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- Archive-name: fonts-faq/part06
- Version: 1.1.1.
-
- FAQ for comp.fonts: Chapter V: Sun-specific Info
-
- Version 1.1.1., Release 07DEC92
-
- Welcome to the comp.fonts FAQ. These articles, posted monthly, describe many
- of the basic questions that seem to be repeated frequently on comp.fonts.
- Your comments are both welcome and encouraged.
-
- The FAQ is divided into chapters. The first chapter is a general overview.
- Most of the remaining chapters are more-or-less platform specific.
-
- For more information about the FAQ, please consult the beginning of the first
- chapter. The FAQ is always available via anonymous ftp from ibis.cs.umass.edu
- in /pub/norm/comp.fonts/FAQ*
-
- This chapter covers the following topics:
-
- 0. Please help!
- 1. Fonts under Open Windows
- 2. Does OpenWindows support Type 1 PostScript fonts?
- 3.1 Improving font rendering time
- 3.2 Making bitmap fonts for faster startup:
- 4. Converting between font formats (convertfont, etc.)
- 5. Xview/OLIT fonts at 100 dpi
- 6. Where can I order F3 fonts for NeWSprint and OpenWindows?
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- 0. 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 <walsh@cs.umass.edu>.
-
- 1. 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>.
-
- 2. 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.
-
- 3.1 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.
-
- 3.2 Making bitmap fonts for faster startup:
-
- $ 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.
-
- 4. 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.
-
- 5. 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.
-
- 6. 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
-
- -- END OF PART V --
-