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Subject: Chapter 6 

    Sun Information

Subject: 6.1. Please help! 

    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.

Subject: 6.2. Fonts Under Open Windows 

    The following information regarding fonts under Open Windows was
    stolen from Liam R.E. Quim's <lee@sq.com> Open Windows FAQ. The
    original author was Rick Heli <Rick.Heli@Eng.Sun.COM>.

Subject: 6.3. 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.

    The TypeScaler product is separately licensable from SunPics (the
    printing arm of Sun Microsystems). If you're interested in
    licensing this product, Rick Heli can put you in touch with
    Marketing to work out the arrangements. TypeScaler does not appear
    as a standalone portion of OpenWindows, though it is resident
    within the X11/NeWS server.

Subject: 6.4. 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 % and here's what 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.

Subject: 6.5. 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: 6.6. 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
    OenWindows.

Subject: 6.7. 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 are bitmaps, and don't
    scale very well.

Subject: 6.8. 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