From: CRDGW2::CRDGW2::MRGATE::"SMTP::CRVAX.SRI.COM::RELAY-INFO-VAX" 11-JUL-1989 21:29 To: MRGATE::"ARISIA::EVERHART" Subj: Re: UIS-FONTS Received: From KL.SRI.COM ([0.0.0.0]) by CRVAX.SRI.COM with TCP; Tue, 11 JUL 89 08:28:25 PDT Received: from ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU by KL.SRI.COM with TCP; Tue, 11 Jul 89 08:18:33 PDT Received: by ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (5.61/1.37) id AA26825; Tue, 11 Jul 89 08:02:48 -0700 Received: from USENET by ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU with netnews for info-vax@kl.sri.com (info-vax@kl.sri.com) (contact usenet@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU if you have questions) Date: 11 Jul 89 14:51:54 GMT From: lotto@husc6.harvard.edu (Gerald I. Lotto) Organization: Harvard Chemistry Dept., Harvard University Subject: Re: UIS-FONTS Message-Id: References: <846@tekno.chalmers.se> Sender: info-vax-request@kl.sri.com To: info-vax@kl.sri.com With much runabout, I found out from DEC that the CFFF format is the same format used by the LN03. There is a document available from DEC entitled something like "Font Users Manual" EK-CFFFM-UG for $21 that has all of the information on that format. Also look in SYS$LIBRARY in the VWS include files for structs that document these files further. It is not a pretty sight. The native format is a proprietary compiled version of the CFFF format. DEC has no publicly available utilities for the creation, editing or manipulation of CFFF fonts that I know of (if only). In fact, the ones shipped with VWS are (in source form) Bliss files full of numerical data that DEC compiles and links/system! They consider all examples, source, CFFF, and compiled as the property of DEC, proprietary and copyrighted (figure that out...). -- Gerald Lotto - Harvard Chemistry Dept.