mkfontdir and mkfontscale - creates an index of fonts

[GuestToo]

mkfontdir and mkfontscale and bdftopcf

some font tools

bdftopcf man page
mkfontdir man page
mkfontscale man page
Chinese HOWTO
Unicode-HOWTO
more font documentation

Edit: Oct 31, 2005 - added bdftopcf and some documentation

[Leon]

Thanks for this useful pup.

I tried to install iso_8859.2 fonts but couldn't found 'bdftopcf' command to convert fonts from bdf to pcf format.

Do you know where to find 'bdftopcf'?

[MU]

http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/xutils

Or extract the archive attached to /usr/X11R6/bin
it contains bdftopcf from Mandrake 9.2

I don't know if it will run on a puppy without the X.org-Xserver, just try it out.

Mark

[Leon]

Thank you!

G2's mkfontdir.pup have saved the files to /root/my-applications/bin.

I decided to save bdftopcf file from your archive to /root/my-applications/bin.

I tried it in Rxvt and it works.

[klhrevolutionist]

I am just wondering exactly what this does ?
What is it for ? And who is this for ? Thanks.

[MU]

it was requested by someone from poland I think.
He needs to set up an east-european font.
German fonts are included in puppy, but for some other countries it seems to be a quite torturing procedere.

Mark