#xmbdfed

xmbdfed can import TrueType/OpenType fonts (using the Freetype library). For testing xmbdfed it's useful to have a few samples of various formats in its repo (ad hoc testing for now, but maybe one day automated). I've just added Comic Sans (comic.ttf) to the repo which i can do under the MIT licence, as it was distributed with Comic Chat when that program was open sourced earlier this year. #xmbdfed #ComicSans

My plans for xmbdfed (BDF bitmap font editor) https://codeberg.org/drj/xmbdfed are:

• soon a maintenance release 4.7.4 ish (4.7 was the last release, in 2004), basically my current changes wrapped up, which are mostly making it compile and removing bugs for a modern system;
• then later moving towards making it simpler by removing options. So if you actually use it and dearly love some non-default option, say so now. I'll probably change the bitmap editor to be more MacPaint-like too.

#xmbdfed

*Frankenstein voice* "It's alive!". xmbdfed running on my M4 Mac after compiling. Loads of warnings, but only a couple of errors that needed tweaking away. xmbdfed is Mark Leisher's XMotif (xm) Bitmap Distribution Format (bdf) Editor (ed). The source code i found on Wayback, because of course the original New Mexico State University server is gone. And i only found the link because of the assiduous recording of Luc Devroye, a name who everyone in the type community probably knows, but sadly his website/archival project will not be being updated. Parts of this project, and the greater enterprise, feel like sand slipping through my hands. #xmbdfed #BitmapFont