adding fonts

Suhaib Siddiqi ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
Thu Sep 20 16:57:00 GMT 2001


You can put them in a subdirectory and run makfondir utility, then make it
available to X server using -fp option

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Igodt [ mailto:Paul.Igodt@kulak.ac.be ]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 3:49 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@xfree.cygwin.com
> Subject: adding fonts
> 
> Dear Cygwin-Xfree developers
> 
> 
>  I just installed the package on my PC and was able to run the first
> X-session.
> 
>  My problem is to run a package which needs its own set of fonts,
> which
> I have availabe in BDF format.
> 
>  How should I proceed stepwise to
>       a) change the fonts in a shape which will be recognised
>       b) add them to the Xserver
>       c) startup again
> 
>  Thanks for your help
> 
> Paul Igodt



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