Is it possible to use Courier New (or just Courier) as a console font?

bergqvistjl · 2011-09-30 18:50:58

Hi, is it possible to use Courier New (or if i can't get that to work, Courier) as a console (i.e. not in X) font, and if so, how?

Thanks.

alphaniner · 2011-09-30 19:13:58

I think you can only use special 'consolefonts' for the console. In Arch they seem to be part of the kbd package, installed to /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/.

karol · 2011-09-30 19:24:24

Have you tried https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22491 ?

stlarch · 2011-09-30 19:36:58

Hey Karol, do you know if bdf2psf is included in psftools? I was just reading this post https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 49#p770649 , and noticed that it was from Ashren also.

edit:I guess I could have looked at the website. It appears it doesn't. But the instructions in the thread above should be good enough.

Last edited by stlarch (2011-09-30 19:49:01)

karol · 2011-09-30 19:48:52

stlarch wrote:

Hey Karol, do you know if bdf2psf is included in psftools? I was just reading this post https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 49#p770649 , and noticed that it was from Ashren also.

I've installed psftools and I'm afraid the answer is 'No':

[karol@black test]$ pacman -Ql psftools | grep bdf2psf
[karol@black test]$ pacman -Ql psftools | awk '/bin/ {print $2}'
/usr/bin/
/usr/bin/bbc2psf
/usr/bin/cpi2psf
/usr/bin/cpicomp
/usr/bin/cpidcomp
/usr/bin/fnt2psf
/usr/bin/fnts2fon
/usr/bin/fon2fnts
/usr/bin/mda2psf
/usr/bin/page2cp2
/usr/bin/psf2bbc
/usr/bin/psf2bdf
/usr/bin/psf2bsd
/usr/bin/psf2fnt
/usr/bin/psf2inc
/usr/bin/psf2pbms
/usr/bin/psf2raw
/usr/bin/psf2txt
/usr/bin/psf2wof
/usr/bin/psf2wyse
/usr/bin/psf2xbm
/usr/bin/psf2zx
/usr/bin/psfjoin
/usr/bin/psfmerge
/usr/bin/psfpages
/usr/bin/psfs2cpi
/usr/bin/psfxform
/usr/bin/raw2psf
/usr/bin/txt2psf
/usr/bin/wof2psf
/usr/bin/wyse2psf
/usr/bin/zx2psf

stlarch · 2011-09-30 19:50:26

Jinx

karol · 2011-09-30 19:53:51

stlarch wrote:

the instructions in the thread above should be good enough.

Something tells me you're going to provide a PKGBUILD for even easier use ;P

stlarch · 2011-09-30 19:59:44

^^ Yeah, I was kinda thinking the same thing. I'll see what I can do later when I have some time. ^^

bergqvistjl · 2011-10-14 21:02:36

So, any solutions?

karol · 2011-11-29 13:49:01

bergqvistjl wrote:

So, any solutions?

You can convert a bdf font to a psf and use it in a console. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52888
AFAIK Courier New is a MS font so I don't think it's distributed as *.bdf (if it's distributed at all: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52982 doesn't have it)

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Is it possible to use Courier New (or just Courier) as a console font?

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