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- From: mistry@waterloo.hp.com (Mohan Mistry)
- Subject: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.dir question
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:50:10 GMT
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- We have RS/6000 Runnung AIX 2.3. The fonts under /usr/lib/X11/fonts which
- is IBM specific have incorrect specifications
-
- sample of fonts.dir file:
- Bld17.snf.Z -ibm--bold-r-block--23-16-100-100-c-110-ibm-850
- Bld17.iso1.snf.Z -ibm--bold-r-block--23-16-100-100-c-110-iso8859-1
- Bld17.iso2.snf.Z -ibm--bold-r-block--23-16-100-100-c-110-iso8859-2
- Bld17.iso3.snf.Z -ibm--bold-r-block--23-16-100-100-c-110-iso8859-3
- Bld17.iso4.snf.Z -ibm--bold-r-block--23-16-100-100-c-110-iso8859-4
- Bld17.iso5.snf.Z -ibm--bold-r-block--23-16-100-100-c-110-iso8859-5
- Bld17.iso7.snf.Z -ibm--bold-r-block--23-16-100-100-c-110-iso8859-7
- Bld17.iso9.snf.Z -ibm--bold-r-block--23-16-100-100-c-110-iso8859-9
- ^ ^
- | |
- pixels-------+ +-------- Points
-
- The points field does not really match the fonts in associated snf file.
- Usually this field is in the order x10. Even the font properties are
- not correctly set. Either the utility which generated the SNF OR these fonts
- were not originally BDF.
-
- This really screws up bitmap font scalars which looks at points field
- to scale up/down.
-
- Question: Is this fixed in their latest release ?
-
- ------------ aixterm use of fonts---------------------------------------
-
- aixterm does a xlistfonts with by trying to match of following pattern:
-
- "-*-*-medium-r-*-*-20-*-*-*-c-*-IBM-850"
-
-
- This is not a good practice since one should match by point not by pixel!
-
- See O'Reilly's Xlib programming Manual Vol 1 3rd Edition
- Section A.1.2 pages 558-559
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-
- Hopefully someone from AIX team can be informed about this.
-
-
- mohan
- mistry@waterloo.hp.com
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