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Version: 2.1.5

Subject: 6. Sun Information

 Someone mailed a file of Sun-related font tips.  Unfortunately, I cannot
 find the file.  If you have any suggestion for this section (or if you
 are the person that mailed me the other list), please forward your
 suggestions to norm.

 [ Note: much of this information is obsolete, based on the
 SunOS4/Solaris2.1 server.  The Solaris 2.3 and later servers are based
 on the standard X11R5 server but with Display PostScript added, so you
 can do Type 1 in the "normal" way (fontdir+mkpsres) ]

Subject: 6.1. Fonts Under Open Windows

 The following information regarding fonts under Open Windows was donated
 by Liam R.E. Quin from the Open Windows FAQ.

Subject: 6.1.1. Does OpenWindows support Type 1 PostScript fonts?

 Type 1 fonts are supported starting with the NeWSprint 2.0 and Solaris
 2.0 (OpenWindows 3.0.1) releases.

 There are also 57 F3 format fonts supplied with OpenWindows which are
 fully hinted.  Documentation on the F3 font format and the F3 font
 interpreter, TypeScaler, is available from Sun.

Subject: 6.1.2. Improving font rendering time

 Although the Sun type renderer (TypeScaler) is pretty fast, it's not as
 fast as loading a bitmap.  You can pre-generate bitmap fonts for sizes
 that you use a lot, and you can also alter and access the font cache
 parameters.      If you have a lot of memory you might want to increase
 the font cache size.

          $ psh -i
          Welcome to X11/NeWS Version3      <--- psh will say this at you
          currentfontmem =                  % type this line ...
          300                               % ... my server was using 300 Kbytes
          1024 setfontmem
                                            % Just to check:
          currentfontmem =
          1024

 See pp. 328ff of the NeWS 3.0 Programmer's Guide.  You need to say psh
 -i so that the PostScript packages are loaded - see the psh man page.

 You could also add the following line to your $HOME/.openwin-init file
 to perform this task every time you start OpenWindows:

        echo 1024 setfontmem | psh -i > /dev/null 1>&2

Subject: 6.1.3. Making bitmap fonts for faster startup

 Sun supports the F3 scalable outline format.  These descriptions are
 stored in .f3b files.  The makeafb program is used to create a bitmap
 font at a particular size which is stored in a .afb file, which is an
 Adobe ASCII format for font bitmaps.  X11/NeWS really prefers a binary
 format though for speed and other reasons, so convertfont is used to
 "compile" the font into a font binary or .fb file.

 Once this is done, X11/NeWS needs to understand the relationship between
 the .f3b file and all the bitmaps which are based on it.  Thus, the
 bldfamily program makes these correlations and stores the data in the
 font family or .ff file.

 bldfamily also builds a global list of all fonts stored in the working
 directory, writing the results out to the file Families.list.  If one
 wishes to create font aliases, these can be added to the Synonyms.list
 file by hand and bldfamily will then add them to Families.list for you.
 X11/NeWS uses Families.list to construct the font list it advertises
 to applications.

 To go from F3 to BDF, use makeafb to generate a bitmap font in .afb
 format.  Then use one of convertfont's many options to change to this
 to .bdf format and from there it should be clear.

        $ mkdir $HOME/myfonts
        $ cd $HOME/myfonts
        $ makeafb -20 -M $OPENWINHOME/lib/fonts/Bembo.f3b
        Creating Bembo20.afb
        $ convertfont -b Bembo20.afb
        Bembo20.afb->./Bembo20.fb
        Chars parameter greater than number of characters supplied.
        $ ls
        Bembo20.afb   Bembo20.fb      Synonyms.list
        $ bldfamily
        * Bembo                      ./Bembo.ff (Encoding: latin)
        cat: ./Compat.list: No such file or directory
        $ xset +fp `pwd`
        $ xset fp rehash

 If you want the server to see your new font directory every time, add
 this directory to your FONTPATH environment variable in one of your
 start-up files, e.g. .login or .profile.

Subject: 6.1.4. Converting between font formats (convertfont, etc.)

 You can also use F3 fonts with an X11 server, by converting them to a
 bitmap (X11 bdf format) first.  Your license restricts use of these
 fonts on another machine, and unless you have NeWSPrint you shouldn't
 use them for printing.  Having said all that...  you can use makeafb
 and convertfont to generate bdf files that you can compile with
 bdftosnf or bdftopcf.

 Use mftobdf (from the SeeTeX distribution) to convert TeX PK fonts to
 X11 BDF format, which you can then use with either X11 or OpenWindows.

Subject: 6.1.5. Xview/OLIT fonts at 100 dpi

 There aren't any.  More precisely, the various text fonts, such as
 Lucida Typewriter Sans, are available at 100 dpi, and in fact are
 scalable under OpenWindows.  The glyph fonts used to be bitmaps, which
 don't scale very well, but starting with OpenWindows 3.2, the OpenLook
 UI glyph fonts are provided in scalable format as well.

Subject: 6.2. Where can I order F3 fonts for NeWSprint and OpenWindows?

 600 F3 fonts are available for unlocking from Printer's Palette, a CD
 available with NeWSprint 2.0.

 In addition, F3 fonts are available from the following sources:

        Linotype AG                     Linotype Company
        Mergenthaler Allee 55-75        425 Oser Avenue
        6236 Eschborn Germany           Hauppague, NY  11788
        49/(61 96) 4031                        (800) 336-0045
        FAX 011/49/6196-982185          FAX 516-434-2055
        attn: F3 Font Production        attn: F3 Font Production

        Monotype Plc.                   Monotype Typography
        Salfords Redhill RH1 5JP        53 W. Jackson Boulevard Suite 504
        England                         Chicago, IL  60604
        44/(737) 765959                 (800) 666-6893
        FAX 011/44/737-769243           FAX (312) 939-0378
        attn: F3 Font Production        attn: F3 Font Production

        U R W                           U R W
        Harksheider Strasse 102         One Tara Boulevard Suite 210
        D2000 Hamburg Germany           Nashua, NH  03062
        49/(40) 606050                  (603) 882-7445
        49/(40) 60605148                (603) 882-7210
        attn: F3 Font Production        attn: F3 Font Production

        Bigelow & Holmes                Autologic
        P. O. Box 1299                  1050 Rancho Conejo Boulevard
        Menlo Park, CA  94026           Newbury Park, CA  91320
        415/326-8973                    (800)235-1843, or (805)498-9611 in CA
        FAX (415) 326-8065              FAX (805) 499-1167
        attn: F3 Font Production        attn: F3 Font Production

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