adding .fon fonts

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

You cannot use *.fon with XFree86.  I do remember seeing a utility somewhere
On the Internet which claims to convert *.fon from win32 to *.pcf files.
I never tried it and I do not have URL for it.  If you can convert them to
*.pcf, then gzip it... Then copy to a
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/subdirectory-of-your-choice
And run mkfontdir to create aliases files, you should be fine.

Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John A. Turner [ mailto:john.turner@pobox.com ] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 8:17 PM
> To: Cygwin XFree86 mailing list
> Subject: adding .fon fonts
> 
> 
> keep in mind that I know little about X internals, or even X 
> programming - when it comes to X, whether on Unix or Win2k, 
> I'm purely a luser
> 
> my question is, if I have some .fon fonts, is it possible to 
> use them with cygwin/xfree86?  I see that all the standard 
> fonts are .pcf - if that's what's required, can .fon fonts be 
> converted to .pcf?
> 
> thx,
> 
> -John Turner
>