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- From: mistry@waterloo.hp.com (Mohan Mistry)
- Subject: IBM RS/6000 /usr/lib/X11/fonts/fonts.dir
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:57:04 GMT
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- We have a RS/6000 Runnung AIX 2.3. The fonts under /usr/lib/X11/fonts which
- has IBM specific fonts have incorrect specifications.
-
- sample of fonts.dir file:
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- 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
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- The points field does not really match the fonts in associated snf file.
- Usually this field is in the order x10. The font properties are not correctly
- set.
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- Either the utility which generated the SNF OR these fonts were not originally
- BDF.
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- This really screws up bitmap font scalars (X11R5) which looks at points field
- to scale up/down.
-
- Question: Is this fixed in their latest release ? Could someone verify this
- on their systems ... please.
-
- ------------ aixterm use of fonts---------------------------------------
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- aixterm does a xlistfonts() using the following pattern:
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- "-*-*-medium-r-*-*-20-*-*-*-c-*-IBM-850"
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- This is not a good practice since one should match by point not by pixel!
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- See O'Reilly's Xlib programming Manual Vol 1 3rd Edition
- Section A.1.2 pages 558-559
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- Symptom: The bitmap Font scalar will create a huge font .
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- Hopefully someone from AIX team can be informed about this.
- Already posted in comp.unix.aix.
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- mohan
- mistry@waterloo.hp.com
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