ref: 4c6692444069d92de2e1cb6a1463915ba9c68fdb
parent: 30b8480bbbf103e234ce81432b3e9c09dbcc9874
author: Werner Lemberg <[email protected]>
date: Tue May 11 03:24:28 EDT 2010
* docs/formats.txt: Give pointer to PCF documentation. Information provided by Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]>.
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+2010-05-11 Werner Lemberg <[email protected]>
+
+ * docs/formats.txt: Give pointer to PCF documentation.
+ Information provided by Alan Coopersmith
+ <[email protected]>.
+
2010-05-10 Ken Sharp <[email protected]>
Fix Savannah bug #29846.
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[3] Support is rudimentary currently; some tables are not loaded yet.
-[4] There is no formal PCF specification; you have to deduce the exact
- format from the source code within X11. George Williams did this for
- his FontForge editor:
+[4] See
+
+ THE X WINDOW SYSTEM SERVER: X VERSION 11, RELEASE 5
+ Elias Israel, Erik Fortune, Digital Press, 1992
+ ISBN 1-55558-096-3
+
+ for a specification given in Appendix D on pgs. 436-450. However,
+ this information might be out of date; unfortunately, there is no
+ PCF specification available online, and this book is out of print.
+ George Williams deduced the font format from the X11 sources and
+ documented it for his FontForge font editor:
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/pcf-format.html