Re: Regarding VGA Fonts ?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
18 Sep 1997 20:52:02 GMT

Followup to: <19970918191722Z973219-252+1012@vger.rutgers.edu>
By author: Sachin Garg <sachin@cdacb.ernet.in>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> What I am mainly interested is the formats of the various fonts i.e. the
> .fnt, .psf (is it postscript),.cp etc. ? Is it possible to convert fonts
> in metafont to the consolefonts? are any utilities available?
>

PSF fonts are not PostScript; they are "PC Screen Fonts"; it is a
bitmap format limited to PC resolutions (something that should
probably be fixed) with an optional embedded Unicode table. There is
a brief description included in the kbd package. Some day I should
write a man5 entry for them...

-hpa

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