Re: [ft] Creating an [OT]TF font from BDF font

Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> Fri, 09 Dec 2005 01:07:15 +0100 (CET)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.fonts.freetype.user,gmane.comp.xfree86.fonts
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Juliusz wrote fonttosfnt [...]
> 
> [...] the plan was to use it to eliminate BDF/PCF fonts from the X
> distribution and ship only TTF files. That's been stalled for a
> couple of years as we need to preserve all of the mystic BDF
> properties, and be able to regenerate BDF fonts as needed (BDF being
> the only X standard for font distribution).

Hmm, why not simply adding a special `BDF ' table which holds all
properties?  This should be straightforward, and you get lossless
conversion.


    Werner