For those of you doing font work (Unicode or otherwise) for Unix, I just put
together a TT->BDF converter based on the FreeType TT renderer. The source
code is now part of the FreeType distribution which is available from:
ftp://ftp.physiol.med.tu-muenchen.de/pub/freetype/devel/freetype-current.tar.gz
I have pre-built binaries available from:
[Binaries: Linux, Solaris, SunOS]
ftp://crl.nmsu.edu/CLR/multiling/General/ttf2bdf-1.0-ELF.tar.gz
ftp://crl.nmsu.edu/CLR/multiling/General/ttf2bdf-1.0-SOLARIS.tar.gz
ftp://crl.nmsu.edu/CLR/multiling/General/ttf2bdf-1.0-SUNOS.tar.gz
The resulting BDF fonts still have a few minor problems (to be fixed in later
ttf2bdf versions), but loading them into the XmBDFEditor and saving them will
automatically fix those problems. The XmBDFEditor is available in source and
binary form in the same directory as the ttf2bdf binaries.
For those interested in this sort of thing, I would like to mention that the
FreeType renderer will soon be available as an additional renderer for X11R6
and it's font server. I'll be announcing the release on comp.fonts and
comp.windows.x near the end of this month after a testing period.
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Computing Research Lab not when there is nothing left to add, but
New Mexico State University when there is nothing left to take away."
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