Xref: utzoo comp.unix.ultrix:1503 comp.windows.x:12474 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!bbn!ileaf!io!bcking From: bcking@io.UUCP (Christine King x4426) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.windows.x Subject: Re: mkfontdir under DECwindows Message-ID: <1220@io.UUCP> Date: 15 Aug 89 21:19:01 GMT References:Distribution: comp Organization: Interleaf Inc, Cambridge, MA Lines: 24 If you have your FOO.BDF file, you do this: $ FONTCOMPILER /OUT=FOO.DECW$FONT FOO.BDF Then you copy the resulting FOO.DECW$FONT file into the default DECW font directory hierarchy. For us that's SYS$COMMON:[SYSFONT.DECW.*], where "*" is probably "75DPI". The font doesn't actually become known to DECWindows until the next time an XSetFontPath() is done, probably at boot time. If you don't want to use the System font library, you can put your font wherever is convenient for you. Then your application has to do its own XSetFontPath(), probably concatenating your directory onto the default DECW$FONT:. Warning: It can take a good 30 seconds for X to recache the font names when you do that! -- MONIKER: Christine King UUCP: ...{mit-eddie,ihnp4!harvard!bbn,sun!sunne}!ileaf!bcking PHONE: (617) 577-9800 USMAIL: Interleaf Inc, Ten Canal Park, Cambridge MA 02141