From: "Alex Taylor"    
      
   On Wed, 18 May 2011 00:25:32 UTC, Peter Flass  wrote:   
      
   > > The "standard" bitmap font format that Linux (well, FreeType) supports   
   > > is BDF.  However, you can also create a TrueType font with embedded   
   > > bitmaps that get shown in place of rendered outlines at specific point   
   > > sizes.  I don't know of any examples of either that resemble System    
   > > VIO, however...   
   >    
   > It would seem it should be possible to convert them.  After all, a    
   > bitmap is a bitmap is a bitmap...  In my previous life I had fun    
   > converting IBM AFP bitmapped fonts to HP PCL bitmap fonts and visa-versa.   
      
   Oh, sure.  Somebody just has to write a program capable of parsing the   
   actual bitmap data out of the OS/2-specific data structures (which in   
   turn have to be uncompressed and extracted from the DLL resources,   
   although that could be done manually beforehand using RESMGR).   
      
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