X11 fonts when rendering to TIFF

Neil Youngman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.graphicsmagick.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
When rendering a simple plain text file to TIFF, can I get it to use a 
BDF or PCF font?

gm convert -font /path/to/font.bdf /tmp/sample.txt /tmp/sample.tif

give me an error. The error is eliminated by using x:/path/to/font.bdf, 
but it clearly isn't using the requested font.

Neil Youngman

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