[ILUG] Home-Made fonts?

[John P. Looney]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 03:19:47PM +0000, John Gay mentioned:
> I've just had a quick google for this subject but can not find anything that 
> tells you 'how' to make your own fonts, just how to install existing fonts. I 
> know that at least one person on this list has created his own fonts. My 
> daughter has designed herown font-set by hand and would like to be able to 
> use it in Linux and ,God forbid, Windows. I've explained this is not a simple 
> undertaking, but she has set out the full alphabet and numerals so I thought 
> the least I could do was to see what I could find for her.
> 
> If anyone has some tips, ideas or even beter a pointer to a how-to or 
> instructions to send her way @
> 
> michiegan at eircom.net
> 
> or through me we would be very greatful.

 I made my own (bitmap) font[0] a while back, with "xmbdfed"[1]. It'll let
you painstakingly make a BDF file, which can be converted into one of X's
own fonts (with /usr/X11R6/bin/bdftopcf).

 For making scalable vector fonts, I think you are talking big money.

Kate

[0] Kate's font, viewable & downloadable from; http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~valen/
[1] http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/xmbdfed.html

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