Problem getting bitmap fonts into the image

Hello list, I hope I'm appropriate.

I'm having a rather hard time getting bitmap fonts into the squeak
image.

I'm using fonts named proggyfonts[1] for my terminals, emacs and other
places where I need fixed-width fonts. And I would like to use them in
squeak too. I just can't seem to manage it.

I installed a pcf -> bdf converter, but the resulting bdf file didn't
want to be read by the BDFFontReader.

I tried most stuff that is in the wiki about bdf fonts, but the data
seems to be from around 2000 and maybe aren't applicable any longer.

For testing and sanity check (I'm sitting at the problem for over an
hour now., I tried to use the helvica fonts that were used in the class
comment of BDFFontReader (they were dated from 1990, so they would've
been the ones the author used, I guess.) and they didn't convert either.

Any help appreciated and thanks in advance.

If TTF is a must, is there maybe a way to get bitmap fonts into that
format without ending looking bah? :-)

br,
benny

[1] http://proggyfonts.com/

  Hello,

> I'm using fonts named proggyfonts[1] for my terminals, emacs and other
> places where I need fixed-width fonts. And I would like to use them in
> squeak too. I just can't seem to manage it.
>
> I installed a pcf -> bdf converter, but the resulting bdf file didn't
> want to be read by the BDFFontReader.

  What was the pcf to bdf converter?  Was it pcf2bdf?  I can try
something.

> I tried most stuff that is in the wiki about bdf fonts, but the data
> seems to be from around 2000 and maybe aren't applicable any longer.

  It was written by a person who didn't know about Smalltalk much back
then (the person may not know well still), but it should work.

> For testing and sanity check (I'm sitting at the problem for over an
> hour now., I tried to use the helvica fonts that were used in the class
> comment of BDFFontReader (they were dated from 1990, so they would've
> been the ones the author used, I guess.) and they didn't convert
> either.

  Hmm, that is interesting.  It is broken somehow.  What Squeak
release are you using?

> Any help appreciated and thanks in advance.
>
> If TTF is a must, is there maybe a way to get bitmap fonts into that
> format without ending looking bah? :-)

  It shouldn't be a must.

  BTW, for a fixed-width font, we have Atlanta font in some images.

-- Yoshiki

Last time I used BDFFontReader (it was a long time ago) in conjunction with pcf2bdf tool I had to change BDFFontReader>>#getLine to:

getLine
    | line |
    [line isEmptyOrNil] whileTrue: [line _ self upTo: Character cr].
    ^line

because generated bdf files had empy strings in unexpected (to BDFFontReader) places.
Hope this helps