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Chuck McKnight:
Ok, I did a little searching and found this little program which makes BDF font files. But then, when I run it through convbdf I get the following error:


--- Code: ---Error: bad 'FONT'
Error reading font header
--- End code ---

 ???

eevan:
It's quite easy. Use the FontForge to create a bitmap .bdf font, and then convert it to .fnt using convbdf.exe. If you need the help about using FontForge, read the tutorial pdf from the site. But it's pretty straightforward if you created fonts before.

I use the Fontlab, but it took me just 15 minutes to start working in FontForge. I have modified the Namil-8, adding cyrillic glyphs and some punctuation. Ask if you need help.

Cheers

Chuck McKnight:
I have the .bdf font working correctly, it's convbdf that seems to be having the problem.

Llorean:
Except that the error message suggests that there's something wrong with the BDF's header. It bears investigating, because it could mean something's wrong with convbdf or something's wrong with the .bdf file. Unfortunately, it's outside things I know enough about to be helpful.

eevan:
Look at the header of the generated BDF. It should look something like this:

--- Code: ---STARTFONT 2.1
FONT Namil__8
SIZE 8 78 78
FONTBOUNDINGBOX 8 8 0 0
COMMENT "Generated by fontforge, http://fontforge.sourceforge.net"
COMMENT ""
STARTPROPERTIES 5
DEFAULT_CHAR 0
POINT_SIZE 360
FONT_DESCENT 0
FONT_ASCENT 8
COPYRIGHT "Public domain font.  Share and enjoy."
ENDPROPERTIES
CHARS 288
--- End code ---
Convbdf is complaining it can't parse the header. Everything works here for bdfs generated by FontForge.

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