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- From: koontz@cam.nist.gov (John E. Koontz X5180)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Subject: Installing x3270's font under OpenWindows 3.3
- Keywords: x3270,installation,fonts
- Message-ID: <9941@fs3.cam.nist.gov>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 18:03:15 GMT
- Sender: news@cam.nist.gov
- Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
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- I've been trying to install x3270 under OpenWindows. While the
- process of installing the fonts is nicely summarized by Buzz
- Moschetti in a posting from November, I have a problem not
- anticipated in his discussion.
-
- If I install the fonts in a working directory, and then add that
- directory to the font path, then x3270 finds the 3270 font without
- any problem. But, if I install the font in $OPENWINHOME/lib/fonts,
- with the rest of the OW fonts, both x3270 and xfd come up with
- LucidaSans-Bold instead of 3270 for a font. Naturally this isn't a
- very good substitution, because the symbol vectors are radically
- different.
-
- Any ideas? Barring ideas, where would I find documentation of the
- contents and format of the table files Compat.list, Synonyms.list,
- and Families.list? Is there a definition document for BDF fonts?
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- John E. Koontz (koontz@bldr.nist.gov)
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