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Re: Font conversion



On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, David Brauman wrote:

>I wanted to run DOSEMU under X with a Hebrew font, and I really didn't
>like the Hebrew characters in the vgah font from the hebxfonts package.
>Fortunatly, I have saved (using the kbd package) my old hardware font 
>(I changed the hardware and the new font is terrible) and I decided to 
>convert it from the raw bitmap format (8x16 == 16 bytes per character
>times 256 == 4096 bytes) to a .pcf (or .bdf) so I could ues it with
>DOSEMU.
>
>So I spent five minutes writing a simple convertor - .f16 to .bdf
>It works quite well, and xdos now uses my old favourite font --

Dudu

  Would you please post your code: I have what you did but for Arabic and
I'd rather not reinvent this weel.

  Thanks

alex