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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 11:03:09 EDT
- From: fgreco@fis1026.shearson.com (Frank Greco)
- Sender: news@Unify.Com
- Subject: Re: Font problems - Sun, Open-look V3
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- > I need a font which is eight-bit, iso-8859-1, clean, and fixed-spaced,
- > i.e. suitable for shelltool windows. The only ones my ol3 system
- > seems to have that meet that criteria are Courier fonts - which, even
- > though they are quite ugly, I could deal with, were it not for the
- > fact that there are problems with them:
-
- Try lucidasanstypewriter.
-
- > My questions are these:
- >
- > 1: Is there any ftp'able font editor for ol fonts?
-
- True "OL" (do you mean OW?) fonts are F3 fonts (perhaps Type 1
- in the future?). Creating a new scaleable (F3) font can be
- done with the TypeMaker; but it's a non-trivial task if you're
- starting from scratch. TypeMaker is an unbundled product from Sun.
-
- > 2: What is the name of the default font in ol2 and ol3 (they are
- > different) ?
-
- I believe its the same font, but its more correct in OW 3.0
-
- > 3: Why are some font specifications scaleable, i.e. the -scale
- > extra_large option yields a larger font, and others not?
-
- Because not all fonts are scaleable. The F3 fonts are (and so
- are DisplayPostscript's Type1/3 fonts), most X Window fonts are
- not. Sun's TypeScaler (built into OW) can convert the F3 fonts
- to bitmap for display, but ordinary X fonts/bitmaps look like
- garbage when "scaled".
-
- Frank G.
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