Re: [foxboro] Font properties meaning

I'm no expert, but I can use Google.

A Unix font is named with the format:
-foundry-family-weight-slant-setwidth-addstyle-pixel-point-resx-resy-spacing
-width-charset-encoding. So your font name is parsed out this way:

-adobe       the font foundry
-helvetica   font family
-bold        weight (normal, bold)
-r           slant (r for roman, i for italic)
-normal      width
-            addstyle (?)
-12          pixel size
-120         size in points
-75          resolution x axis
-75          resolution y axis
-p           spacing
-70          width
-iso8859     character set
-1           encoding (this combined with the previous gives you
             iso8859-1 which is the standard Latin encoding)

Duc

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Duc M. Do
Dow Corning Corp.
Carrollton Plant
Carrollton, KY, US


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Subject: [foxboro] Font properties meaning


Does anybody can help me to understand the meaning of each fields of a font 
definition ??? 

 -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-70-iso8859-1 

..  -adobe-helvetica      ...... is the font name ?
..  -bold
..  -r                     ?????
..  -normal                dimension ???
..  --12-120-75-75-p-70-iso8859-1 .... ????? 

i've to manage fonts of an application running on solaris to make them more 
visible (now are too little) 

thanks
 
 
 
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