Xmbdfed is a raster based font editor for X11 non-scalable (BDF) fonts and Linux console (PSF) fonts. It can import fonts from a variety of sources, including True Type and Windoze fonts, by rasterizing them to a specified font width. Homepage at http://clr.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/xmbdfed.html Seems like it might belong in x11-misc/xmbdfed or app-misc/xmbdfed; probably not in app-editors, since this isn't an editor in the sense of everything else in app-editors. :) I've included an ebuild script and a diff file. The diff includes two fixes: 1) the xmbdfed source expects freetype in a different location, so I've corrected it for the Gentoo install 2) a patch distributed by the xmbdfed author but not yet integrated into a numbered release.
Created attachment 165 [details] xmbdfed-4.5.ebuild
Created attachment 166 [details] xmbdfed-4.5-gentoo.diff
Just discovered an error in my ebuild. xmbdfed depends on freetype1, not freetype2, so the dependency line should read =media-libs/freetype-1.3.1-r3 rather than >=media-libs/freetype-2.0.5 Perhaps it would be better to remove freetype support from this program until the author converts to freetype2. Freetype support isn't that much of a big deal here, since xmbdfed can import server fonts. It can let the server do the rasterization instead of doing it itself. I'm attaching a new ebuild that has both versions: 4.5 uses freetype1, and 4.5-r1 doesn't use freetype at all.
Creating attachments doesn't seem to work right now, so here's the tar: http://www.geocities.com/robm351/xmbdfed.tgz xmbdfed/ xmbdfed/ChangeLog xmbdfed/xmbdfed-4.5.ebuild xmbdfed/xmbdfed-4.5-r1.ebuild xmbdfed/files/ xmbdfed/files/digest-xmbdfed-4.5 xmbdfed/files/xmbdfed-4.5-gentoo.diff xmbdfed/files/digest-xmbdfed-4.5-r1 xmbdfed/files/xmbdfed-4.5-r1-gentoo.diff -r1 is the version that doesn't include freetype 1.3.1. When you get around to checking out this package, feel free to include whichever version. I think that the non-freetype is probably better, until the author supports freetype2.
I really do want to apologise for the length of time this submission has taken to get any attention.. :(
added to portage. I'm really really really sorry it took this long :(
*** Bug 7447 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
