From: ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) Subject: Re: Installing new Type 1 fonts...? Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:31:34 GMT
duty@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Duty Programmer) writes:
>In article <ins217t.721905113@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> ins217t@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:
>>Anyone got any pointers on installing Type 1 fonts into X ?
>>
>>Instead of having .afm files (as well as .pfa or .pfb), they have .pfm
>>files, or whatever...
>Just a wild guess, but if you mean ".pcf", then the files are the new
>X11R5 "Portable Compiler Format" format. These are portable, but made
>for a particular system; i.e. they will work on any X11R5 system, but
>will have to be converted on the fly if the binaries are not directly
>compatible. This would explain the delay you describe.
>This may be way off, it was the "or whatever" that made me wonder
>if you meant ".pcf".
Nah, apologies...
I'm talking about Type 1 fonts, not pcf fonts.
I got one yesterday from cica (a windoze site) which had a .afm file - this
was a little quicker, but the font wasn't particularly useful anyway...
So is there anything i can do to speed this up ?
(besides get a new motherboard 8-)
Enjoy !
Cos !
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