nanogui: request for font utilities
Subject:
Re: request for font utilities
From:
Ben Pfaff ####@####.####
Date:
6 May 1999 17:49:08 -0000
Message-Id: <87ogjy6q9p.fsf@pfaffben.user.msu.edu>
Alexander Peuchert ####@####.#### writes:
On Wed, 5 May 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
> Currently, the nanogui project uses a hard-coded C structure for font display.
> A utility, bdftobogl, written by debian is included to convert X .bdf files to
> C structures.
Take a look at the w windowing system ...
http://www.students.tut.fi/~t150315/
That uses a new font format, .wfnt. Also, the font conversion utility
that comes with W only supports fixed-width fonts, whereas BOGL uses
proportional fonts.
What format do we want NanoGUI to read fonts in? I've been looking at
a few choices:
* .bdf
Advantages: well documented, simple format.
Disadvantages: not as compact as some other formats.
* .pcf
Advantages: smaller than .bdf
Disadvantages: relatively complicated format, not documented
* .wfnt
Advantages: simple
Disadvantages: not a standard format, not documented
I could have a bdf font reader pretty fast if that's what we want.
> Does anyone have any conversion utilities for the older windows 3.1 .FNT file
> format to C? I would like to convert some raster graphics fonts for use with nanogui
> and not all my fonts are bdf format.
The W readme says that WINE has a fnt2bdf program. In addition,
there's a ttftobdf program that comes with freetype.
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