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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-desktop] Re: console16x8.pcf(.gz) font?
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:00:38
Message-Id: hik846$g7c$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-desktop] console16x8.pcf(.gz) font? by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On 01/12/2010 05:42 AM, Duncan wrote:
2 > I have a bitmap font, console16x8 and the short/fat version, console8x8,
3 > pcf format, from back in my Mandrake days. Unfortunately, google isn't
4 > of much help in finding a current package with it included, partly
5 > because a search on console font yields all sorts of hits on fonts for
6 > the console, not /the/ (obviously in hindsight unfortunately named)
7 > console font! That said, it /does/ seem the font was part of the kde3
8 > konsole package for many years (but is not part of the konsole4 package).
9 >
10 > Before I go creating my own ebuild for it, I thought I'd ask if anyone
11 > knows a current package containing it. The files will be console16x8.pcf
12 > (perhaps with the .gz extension added, if compressed) and console8x8.pcf.
13
14 I still have console8x16.pcf.gz in my ~/.fonts directory. It was placed
15 there by KDE3's Konsole but I still use it in KDE4's Konsole. I can
16 send it to you if you like.

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[gentoo-desktop] Re: console16x8.pcf(.gz) font? Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>