PCF is an X11 bitmap font format.
No other major platform uses these fonts (ie not windows or mac - so far as
I know)
The original MIT X11 font format was a bitmap font format : BDF (Bitmap
Distribution Format). These were plain text source files which were
compiled into SNF (Server Normal Format) for direct use by the Xserver.
The binary format was byte-order dependent, so the same font files
couldn't be shared by servers on (eg) SPARC and INTEL architectures.
In X11R5 a new compiled font format, PCF (Portable Common Format)
was introduced. This also featured on the fly LZW decompression by the
Xserver to save disk space. As of X11R6 gzip compression is also supported.
PCF fonts are machine independent and they were needed in part for the new
"fs" network font server which needed to be able to serve up compiled fonts
irrespective of the endian-ness of the requesting Xserver.
But PCF format is still a bitmap font format - not a scaleable outline
fon and 2D needs TrueType or Type1 fonts.
The person who referenced these fonts did not in any case address the original
question which was not asking for another font format but asking where to
install Type1 & TrueType fonts so they may be located by the jre.
-phil.
> Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 16:47:23 -0500
> From: Eric Dofonsou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [JAVA2D] Using specialized fonts across platforms
> Comments: To: Taoufik Lamehamedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Humm this is the first time I hear about this,
> Could any one givbe me more info on these type of fonts URL ??
>
> If I were you, who'd be me?
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> VVeB : triple Ws dot audiophile dot com slash wrick
> |V|@!l : wrick at audiophile dot com
> ---------------------------------------------( Eric Dofonsou )--
> On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Taoufik Lamehamedi wrote:
>
> > HI , otherwise, u can use pcf fonts (protable compiled fonts)
> >
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