3270font

We have hosted the application 3270font in order to run this application in our online workstations with Wine or directly.

Quick description about 3270font:

This font is derived from the x3270 font, which, in turn, was translated from the one in Georgia Tech's 3270tool, which was itself hand-copied from a 3270 series terminal. I built it because I felt terminals deserve to be pretty. The .sfd font file contains a x3270 bitmap font that was used for guidance. The "source" file is edited using FontForge. You'll need it if you want to generate fonts for your platform. On most civilized operating systems, you can simply apt-get install fontforge, yum install fontforge or even port install fontforge. If you are running Windows, you'll probably need something like WSL or Cygwin, but, in the end, the font works correctly (with some very minor hinting issues). The easiest way to generate the font files your computer can use is to run make all (if you are running Ubuntu or Debian, make install will install them too). Using make help will offer a handy list of options.

Features:

• A 3270 font in a modern format
• This font is derived from the x3270 font
• The .sfd font file contains a x3270 bitmap font that was used for guidance
• On FreeBSD the font can be installed with pkg install 3270font
• The "source" file is edited using FontForge
• If you are running Windows, you'll probably need something like WSL or Cygwin

Programming Language: Python.
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