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Using 16-bit BDF fonts with Exceed
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Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> -- 1999-08-17
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Here are some notes for using ISO 10646-1 BDF fonts with the Exceed
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X11 Server for MS-Windows from Hummingbird Communications Ltd. Exceed
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requires fonts to be installed in the Microsoft FON format and not in
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the BDF or PCF formats that are used by Unix X11 servers.
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The original Microsoft FON format was only designed for 8-bit fonts.
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Exceed uses customized FON format which is compatible with Microsoft's
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FON format but contains additional information for X clients such as
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font properties and character metrics. This format supports 16-bit X
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fonts (for Microsoft Windows a 16-bit X font in HCL FON format looks
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like a set of 8-bit fonts). BDF and PCF fonts must be converted into
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HCL FON format and included in the font database before they can be
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used with Exceed.
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Xconfig provides all necessary tools for this operation (just open
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Xconfig->Font->Compile Fonts dialog box, click Help and follow the
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instructions).
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In more detail, installing a BDF font under Exceed works roughly as
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follows:
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1. Create a directory in your exceed_directory/font and call it anything
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you want (in this example we call it "extra"). So we created the
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directory exceed/font/extra.
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2. Transfer the uncompressed BDF file into the directory we just
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created, so that we have a file exceed/font/extra/6x13.bdf.
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3. Open xconfig and go to Font.
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4. Click on Compile Fonts.
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5. Find your exceed/font/extra directory in the directory tree and
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select List Files of Type: as *.BDF.
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You will see your 6x13.bdf file and will be able to select it.
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6. Click on compile.
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7. Now if you go to the directory where the file is, you can move it
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to your extra directory and remove .bdf file.
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8. Go to xconfig and double click on the fonts icon.
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9. Click on the ADD button.
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10. Click on browse and find your extra directory.
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11. Give it a name that you would like to be shown in the font database.
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12. Make sure that Directory selected and Status set to Keep.
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13. Click on OK.
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14. Click on Rebuild Database and click on Done.
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Special thanks to Joyce Kam <joyce@hcl.com> and George Halpert
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<george@hcl.com> from Hummingbird Communications Ltd.
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<support@hcl.com> for providing the above information.
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I am not an Exceed user myself, so if you have specific problems with
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following the above instructions you might want to contact
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<support@hcl.com> directly. Please let me know if you have any
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suggestion for making this description more useful.
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Update [2005-01-14]: Arnaud Desitter <arnaud.desitter@ouce.ox.ac.uk>
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reported that Exceed 9.0 now comes preinstalled with the 6x13 font
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-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
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in the file misc/6x13u.fon.
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