From: drewo@dcatlas.dot.gov (Andrew R. Orndorff)
Subject: Re: DV/X and X11 fonts
Reply-To: Andrew Orndorff <dcatlas!drewo@uunet.uu.net>
 Organization: NHTSA Data Center, Washington, D.C., USA
Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:21:21 GMT

garyrich@qdeck.com (Gary Rich) writes:

>In article <YebhFq_00YV7I8bUx8@andrew.cmu.edu> mp52+@andrew.cmu.edu (Matthew Edward Patton) writes:
>>I am using DV/X on a unix network which relies on X11 fonts.  I have run
>>across some snags in displaying various remote X apps.  So far, the apps
>>all display somewhat correctly, but are missing in various areas. 
>>Especially noticable are the cursors which get replaced with such
>>alphanumerics like 'H', 'a', and 'j' etc.  From what I have seen in my
>>DVX/server/fonts/75dip and misc directories, my font choice is quite
>>limited.  I find this intollerable.  I took the liberty of downloading a
>>couple megs worth of X11 fonts off my network, but they are named with
>>the extention ".pcf"  and DV/X's are '.snf'.  Can someone explain how
>>DV/X finds and uses fonts in the font directories and what format they
>>are supposed to be in?  Can these .pcf fonts be translated to .snf's? 
>>So far I have seen no change in the display capability of DV/X ie. I'm
>>still stuck with courier and helvetica.  Can anyone help in remedying
>>the font crunch?


>.SNF fonts are "server native format".  The only other font formats that
>I've seen are .BDF (binary data file) and PFB fonts which are postscript.
>I'm sure it's just my ignorance that  I've never seen .PCF fonts.  Their
>should be a utility on the machine to convert them to either SNF
>or BDF fonts, after which they will be easy to deal with.
>>
>>Thanks for all insight.
>>
>>
>>I forgot. How do I set up DV/X to use the ATI Graphics Ultra in 8514
>>mode?  There doesn't seem to be a choice for 8514 in the screens.txt. 
>>Can anyone offer advice.


>8514 is not listed in screens.txt, because it's not a VGA or SVGA mode.
>your board should be detected by the setup program.  If it is not, that 
>indicates some problem that needs to be addressed before going straight
>to hand editing config files.
>Gary Rich	<support@qdeck.com>

	For all who care to know, PCF format fonts are DEC's diversion
away from an accepted font standard - typically on Ultrix systems from
version 3.1 to 4.2c. DEC provides a bdf to pcf conversion utility, but
I have yet to see a pcf to bdf utility.

	One typical way to get around this is to dump DEC's X11 on the
Ultrix system and build the MIT release, which uses the SNF format
fonts. However, this doesn't work for some of the newer DEC Stations
because no server is yet available for DEC's newer graphics cards - but
that doesn't prevent you from using the MIT clients, libraries and fonts.

	Or, take another way out and obtain the DEC->MIT font aliases from
the archive at gatekeeper.dec.com (for all those people who run MIT
servers on other hosts, but want to access DEC clients).

	Sorry, I don't remember the exact name of the file, but it's
part of the FAQ in comp.windows.x.

	Andrew Orndorff

	NHTSA Data Center

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