| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
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A customer has a DS3100/UWS 2.2 loaded with Lucid Common LISP V3.0.
They are apparently haveing a problem with incompatible font file
types. UWS only supports .PCS and Lucid's product requires .SNF.
Anyone know the history and/or alternatives to resolve this.
The customer stated an earlier UWS use to support .SNF, but DEC
changed during the Lucid porting process. I'm not familiar with the
font loading process, but sounds like a miscommunication between
vendors with the customer getting squeezed.
Any thoughts!
Rob-
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2785.1 | GILROY::klee | Ken Lee | Thu May 17 1990 17:18 | 9 | |
The .pcf and .snf formats are compiled font files. The source form (defined by MIT) is the .bdf format. The .snf format does not contain sufficient information for the Display PostScript extension in UWS2.2, so UWS2.2 X servers only support the .bdf and .pcf formats. Users wishing to compile their .bdf fonts to the .pcf format can use the dxfc utility. To avoid problems, DEC encourages vendors to ship their fonts in the .bdf format. There is no way to upgrade a .snf format file to .pcf format. Ken | |||||
| 2785.2 | Did UWS2.(n-1) ship .snf file formats? | FORTSC::SHOMO | Thu May 17 1990 19:51 | 8 | |
Thanks for the quick response. Did we ship the .snf file formats with
an earlier version of UWS and if so is it worth trying to dump onto
tape and bring to customer until this situation can be resolved with
vendor?
Thx again
Rob-
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| 2785.3 | GILROY::klee | Ken Lee | Thu May 17 1990 20:06 | 4 | |
Yes, UWS2.1 and UWS2.0 did use .snf fonts. These will not be useful with a UWS2.2 X server, though. Ken | |||||