Making a *.pcf file from TTF

[James Richard Tyrer]

Is there any UNIX/Linux tool to simply produce a *.pcf bit mapped font
from a bit map.

I can use GIMP to make the bit maps from TTF so that isn't a problem.

JRT

[James Richard Tyrer]

To answer my own posting:

XFree86 4.2.0 includes: "bdftopcf" which will convert a BDF font to a
PCF font. So, the problem is making the BDF font from a TTF.

FreeType is supposed to include a tool to do this. I hunted down a
binary package including: "ttf2bdf".

The problem now is that I am trying to convert: "MSLineDrawPSMT"
(linedraw.ttf) with IBM Code Page 437 encoding and have no mapfile' to
convert it to iso8859-1.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

JRT

[RSD99]

MSLineDrawPSMT indicates that you are working from the Monotype PostScript file. It might
be easier to work from the TrueType version that MicroSoft supplies ... I believe that it
is "so old" that it doesn't have "all that code page stuff."

FTP
address is

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/gc0651.exe

It is a self installing ZIP archive that can be opened directly with a program such as
WinZip.

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"James Richard Tyrer" <tyr...@acm.org> wrote in message news:3C7F1580...@acm.org...

[James Richard Tyrer]

RSD99 wrote:
>
> MSLineDrawPSMT indicates that you are working from the Monotype
> PostScript file. It might be easier to work from the TrueType version
> that MicroSoft supplies ... I believe that it is "so old" that it
> doesn't have "all that code page stuff."
>

I think that that is the font I have. File name: "linedraw.ttf"
(converted to lower case).

JRT

[RSD99]

It could be, but if it says "MSLineDrawPSMT" in fontviewer or the font properties
extension, it *is* the Monotype PostScript version ... and someone may have converted it
to TrueType.

MSLineDraw**PS**MT - Indicates PostScript

MSLineDrawPS**MT** - Indicates Monotype

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"James Richard Tyrer" <tyr...@acm.org> wrote in message news:3C804A5C...@acm.org...

[James Richard Tyrer]

RSD99 wrote:
>
> It could be, but if it says "MSLineDrawPSMT" in fontviewer

That is what the GhostScript "Fontmap" file said.

> or the font properties
> extension, it *is* the Monotype PostScript version ... and someone may have converted it
> to TrueType.
>
> MSLineDraw**PS**MT - Indicates PostScript
>
> MSLineDrawPS**MT** - Indicates Monotype

XLFD:

-monotype-MS LineDraw-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-microsoft-symbol

I did download it as: "GC0651.EXE" from MicroSoft.

So, it must be the MicroSoft version.

I have worked on this a little and it appears that the problem is that I
don't have a: "microsoft-symbol" encodings file. I have an: "ibm-cp437"
(what this is called in DOS) file but don't know if it is the same.

This is starting to look like an X question.

JRT

JRT

[RSD99]

Re: "...

I have an: "ibm-cp437"
(what this is called in DOS) file but don't know if it is the same.

..."

Since the "DOS Character Set" predates all of this "code page" stuff, I'd try it and see
what happens. Other than this ... not being *nix geek, "you're in over my head!"

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"James Richard Tyrer" <tyr...@acm.org> wrote in message news:3C814DB4...@acm.org...

[RSD99]

PS - I can probably provide a simple text listing of the old "DOS line drawing"
characters, if you need it.

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"James Richard Tyrer" <tyr...@acm.org> wrote in message news:3C814DB4...@acm.org...

[James Richard Tyrer]

RSD99 wrote:
>
> PS - I can probably provide a simple text listing of the old "DOS line
> drawing" characters, if you need it.

No, I have the "ibm-cp437" file. Unix config files are plain text so I
can read that.

And, like I said, this is probably an X and/or FreeType (the X TrueType
renderer) question so I will try there.

JRT