Mastodawn

discmaster has this quite cute PNG rendering of a BDF file (Bitmap Distribution File). Like this one, which is Sun Arioso as shipped with OpenOffice,
https://discmaster.textfiles.com/view/14464/CD_Magazyn_EXEC_nr_5.iso/Linux/PPC/OpenOffice/oo609FU_installer.tar.gz/oo609FU_installer.tar/installer/f_0217/ariob20.bdf

I can't work out what program it is using, and if it is dexvert, i can't find which part. Does anyone know?

#discmaster #bitmapFont #askfedi

sembiance May 19

@drj it is using dexvert. It first converts the bdf to PCF using: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/util/bdftopcf
After that the preview image is generated from the PCF using deark: https://github.com/jsummers/deark

xorg / util / bdftopcf · GitLab

convert X font from Bitmap Distribution Format to Portable Compiled Format

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David JONES May 19

@sembiance Aha! thanks for stepping in and pointing the way. Much appreciated.