hi all,
im now trying to do some custom (bitmap) fonts for pd under linux and was hoping someone could help...
i got a courier bdf font from here: http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/xc/fonts/bdf/75dpi/courB10.bdf?view=log
edited it a little (chars a-i) with "fontforge" (allso changed the fontname and family) and saved it as bdf font.
converted it with "bdftopcf" and gzipped it.
used (STEP4) instructions here: http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mjmcguff/learn/x11fonts/ (had to add the "FontPath" manually to xorg.conf)
and it seems to work... but look at this http://osku.de/ext-stuff/pd_font_trouble01.png left
- opening the pcf file through nautilus shows the font correct
- "xfontsel" shows the installed pcf.gz font correct
- contest of myfonts dir
- contest of myfonts/fonts.dir file
right
- pd patch font bombed size 8
- pd patch font bombed size 10
- pd patch font bombed size 12
- output of "xdpyinfo"
- the gnome font preferences
i dont know what i should do with these different "dpi" infos... hows that related to bitmap fonts dpi... does "pd" scale bitmap fonts...
as you can see, the pd patch using size 10 is not rendered like size 10 in xfontsel !?
what can/should i do/look ?
cheers andre
ps. i use ubuntu/breezy, pd compiled from cvs, pd launched with -typeface "pdcourier"