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- From: adrian@ora.com (Adrian Nye)
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- Subject: Re: creating a font
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 23:57:47 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 14:13:51 +0900
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- > The O'Reilly books tell me a lot about how to load a font and how to
- > use it once it is loaded but they don't tell me how to create my own
- > font. Is there a way to save a font or create a named font that I
- > could call from the loadXfont call??
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- The X Resource, Issue 2, includes a paper on how to create
- a font and install it so that the server can find it.
- The basic procedure is to use xfed (available by anon ftp on export)
- to edit an existing font or create a new one, then use mkfontdir to
- create the fonts.dir file, then xset (with args) if the font is in a
- directory that's not in the font path.
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