nanogui: Thread: font problems

I am trying to create .pcf fonts from a X server.
The fonts are extracted using fstobdf to get a bdf file and then 
bdftopcf to get a .pcf file.
However, nano-X server blows up when I try to load my .pcf font.

I also tried ttf2bdf for .ttf files and then bdftopcf, but it did the 
same thing.

What am I doing wrong.

Jeff

maybe I do not understand the fonts systems, well I really don't 
understand them, and teh GrCreateFont() function.
I am able to load .pcf.gz fonts with
font = GrCreateFont(<Full Pathname>, 1, NULL);
The font .pcf.gz came form my X fonts directory like:
helvBO18-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz
And it loads fine.
But, I have beeen playing around and I try to load a .bdf and get:
fnt_createfont: /home/dufus/nano-X-src/testFontSize/luxisb.bdf,1 not found
pcf_createfont: /home/dufus/nano-X-src/testFontSize/luxisb.bdf,1 not found

But, it is there.

Also what purpose does the GR_LOGFONT serve? can .pcf fonts be resized, etc.

I have also had a problem with .pcf file created from ttf file 
segfaulting nano-X.

Like, I down load a TTF file and run it through tt2bdf and the resultant 
.bdf through bdftopcf. But then when I load the pcf file, gip'ed or not, 
nano-X segfaults.

I have discovered on thing though. Trying to under stand the X system's 
font system is enough to drive anybody back to the MS Windows world.

So can anybody help me or point me to some docs that explain it all?

tj

: But, I have beeen playing around and I try to load a .bdf and get:
: fnt_createfont: /home/dufus/nano-X-src/testFontSize/luxisb.bdf,1 not found

Nano-X can't load .bdf fonts, they need to be converted to
.fnt or .pcf format.


: Also what purpose does the GR_LOGFONT serve? can .pcf fonts be resized,
etc.

No, .pcf files are fixed bitmap images.  GR_LOGFONT allows
programmatic selection of fonts by requesting attributes, rather
than knowing a specific font filename.


:
: I have also had a problem with .pcf file created from ttf file
: segfaulting nano-X.
:
: Like, I down load a TTF file and run it through tt2bdf and the resultant
: .bdf through bdftopcf. But then when I load the pcf file, gip'ed or not,
: nano-X segfaults.

I'm not sure why this is yet, perhaps the .pcf font conversions
aren't working properly.  I'm not aware of any .pcf file from
the X11 distribution that won't work, however.  I assume
also you're running the CVS code, since some .pcf fixes
were added.

It would be nice to know whether these core dumps occur
on a desktop intel system, or instead only on your target.
We had some endian issues previously.


:
: I have discovered on thing though. Trying to under stand the X system's
: font system is enough to drive anybody back to the MS Windows world.

Agreed.

Regards,

Greg