[Devel] [Fwd: Re: [Pfaedit-devel] bdf to pcf conversion]

[George Williams]

I received the following question from a user who wants to store
anti-aliased bitmap data in a pcf font. I was not aware that this was
possible.

He is generating bdf fonts with a depth!=1 (Werner posted some examples
of this format to this list a while ago) and wants to use something to
convert to pcf.

Keith, I know you'd rather not think of pcf, but can you tell us if the
format supports grey-scale fonts?

-----Forwarded Message-----
> Our engineer, it turns out, needed the .bdf fonts with bit-per-pixel data so
> that he could convert to .pcf fonts for use in a graphics engine he's
> working on... Apparently the Linux command-line converter he's using,
> bdftopcf, sees the .bdf fonts we're generating with bit-per-pixel data
> (we're generating 2- 4- and 8-bit-per-pixel versions) as corrupted fonts.
> Try as we might, that problem has persisted.
> 
> This may go beyond FontForge's scope, but do you have any feedback on how we
> might otherwise generate the .pcf fonts our engineer is looking for?  I feel
> confident that the .bdf fonts coming out of FontForge are well-formed and
> correct, was thinking you may know of a better bdf-to-pcf conversion process
> than bdftopcf.