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Font editor uploaded to Sunsite
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Mon Mar 27 22:18:31 1995
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 17:15:38 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
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From: orc@pell.com (Orc)
Subject: Font editor uploaded to Sunsite
Organization: White Picket Fences
Keywords: font editor, psf, setfont
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.setup
Since I've not found one to my liking, I've ported a font-editor of
mine over to Linux. This is a moderately ancient editor -- it is
ported from a Atari ST font editor that I wrote in the late 1980s,
and is based on a UCSD Pascal font editor that was written in the
late 1970s. This version is designed to work only with psf-style
fonts (one of the formats that setfont is able to read.)
The source, in case you're interested, is written in the same style
as the original UCSD code -- cryptic and almost comment-free. But,
unlike the original code, it's actually somewhat readable; I dug the
editor out of my archives and ported it to Linux in about 8 hours
while waiting for a collection of database jobs to finish.
The editor can be found at
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Incoming/chedit.tar.gz,
hopefully soon to move to
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Keyboards/chedit.tar.gz
where it can live alongside the fonts it can edit.
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david parsons \bi/ Font Queens of the world, unite.
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