Anonymous> Also, the xmbdfedit program seems totally clueless about such
Anonymous> fonts (when it isn't busy crashing or doing other ridiculous
Anonymous> things). For example, if you load in the above Adobe Courier
Anonymous> font (which has a DWIDTH of 9) and then immediately save it
Anonymous> with xmbdfedit then it will have a DWIDTH of 10 and the spacing
Anonymous> will look like crap if you actually compile it and use it in an
Anonymous> application, until you manually go through the file and (using
Anonymous> your editor's replace command) change all the "DWIDTH 10"s to
Anonymous> "DWIDTH 9"s.
Clue: turn off "Correct Metrics" in the Edit->Setup dialog of xmbdfed or use
the "-nm" command line parameter.
Adobe's automatic conversion from T1 to BDF way back when left several
artifacts. There are two or three glyphs in the 10 point, 100 DPI Adobe
Courier BDF font that are actually 10 pixels wide.
As for the crashing, the best thing to do is get LessTif
(http://www.lesstif.org) and compile it yourself. The current Linux binary is
based on a very old kernel and libraries (approx 2.2.10).
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