how to create new console fonts?
Hi all, I need new fonts for console but I do not know how it is possible to create them. I was unlucky and did not find any source of information concerning this staff.My native language (Armenian) only supported under X which is not enough for me. Unfortunatly I did not found any tips in the debian-i18n list archive. Hope, someone will be able to help me. TIA, Eugene Sevinian CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/ Phone: 374-2-344873
Re: how to create new console fonts?
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 15:47:06 +0400, Eugene Sevinian wrote: I need new fonts for console but I do not know how it is possible to create them. According to /usr/doc/kbd/README.consolefonts : A DOS-hosted PSF font editor is available on eecs.nwu.edu. [no further details of it are provided] The format of console font files (fairly simple) is documented in /usr/doc/kbd/README.psf . Probably your best bet is to write a converter from a standard X font format to psf, and use xmbdfed to construct your fonts. Another option might be to try to port the fontedit from FreeBSD (FreeBSD-mirror/FreeBSD-CVS/src/usr/sbin/pcvt/). HTH, Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: how to create new console fonts?
On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 13:52:06 +0100, I wrote: [difficult approaches to create console fonts] I just looked in the available packages list, and found Package: fonter Section: editors Description: The new generation of font manipulation Fonter is an interactive console font (.fnt) manipulation tool. It's a linux-console-only program that displays all 256 characters of the font on screen and lets you edit them in realtime. HTH, Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
