XmBDFEditor 4.7 released

NOTE: This is the last version of xmbdfed that will be released.  Any patches
       that come in will be applied to the next generation of this editor,
       which will be called "gbdfed".

       Version 1.0 of gbdfed will be released some time in May or June and will
       use GTK 2 (with none of the deprecated features) for the GUI.

       Now is the time to get your requests in for the next generation of this
       bitmap font editor!

Version 4.7 of XmBDFEdit is now available.

   The sources and binaries are available by browser at:

     http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/download.html

   The binaries are compiled with -O4 and stripped.  The Linux version is
   compiled statically so it will run on most modern Linux boxes without
   all those pesky shared library dependencies.

   [Sources]
   http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/xmbdfed-4.7.tar.bz2

   [Binaries: Linux (XFree86 4.3.0, Freetype 2.1.4, OpenMotif 2.2.2), Solaris 2.8]
   http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/xmbdfed-4.7-LINUX.tar.bz2
   http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/xmbdfed-4.7-SOLARIS.tar.bz2

XmBDFEditor is a Motif-based BDF font editor with the following features:

   o  Multiple fonts can be loaded from the command line.
   o  Multiple fonts can be open at the same time.
   o  Cutting and pasting glyphs between fonts.
   o  Multiple glyph bitmap editors can be open at the same time.
   o  Cutting and pasting between glyph bitmap editors.
   o  Export of XBM files from glyph bitmap editors.
   o  Automatic correction of certain metrics when a font is loaded.
   o  Generation of XLFD font names for fonts without XLFD names.
   o  Update an XLFD font name from the font properties.
   o  Update the font properties from an XLFD font name.
   o  Font property editor.
   o  Font comment editor.
   o  Supports unencoded glyphs (ENCODING of -1).
   o  Display of glyph encodings in octal, decimal, or hex.
   o  Builtin on-line help.
   o  Imports PK/GF fonts.
   o  Imports HBF (Han Bitmap Font) fonts.
   o  Imports Linux console fonts (PSF, CP, and FNT).
   o  Imports Sun console fonts (vfont format).
   o  Imports fonts from the X server.
   o  Imports Windows FON/FNT fonts.
   o  Imports TrueType fonts and collections.
   o  Exports PSF fonts.
   o  Exports HEX fonts.
   o  Edits two and four bits per pixel gray scale fonts.

Version 4.6 was released only as a Linux binary.

Differences between version 4.5 and 4.7:

Fixed
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   1. Fixed PSF font importing and exporting.

   2. Fixed importing Windows FON/FNT.

   3. Other bug fixes (see CHANGES file).

Changed
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   1. Changed to Freetype 2.  Freetype 1 no longer supported.

   2. PSF font exporting now allows you to choose whether to export the font
      with a Unicode table, the font only, or a Unicode table only.

      Only PSF2 fonts are exported.

      Importing PSF fonts does not support composite fonts or attaching a
      separate Unicode table.

Mark Leisher
23 February 2004
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