Re: *.flt to *.pfb

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hudson holmes (holmes++at++ivex3d.com)
Mon, 28 Oct 1996 10:06:17 -0500

Marcus,
How does pfconv work in conjunction with the MultiGen Loader which comes with Performer? Does it still call the OpenFlight loader (I would assume not), and do we lose the benefit of the sorting, etc. that the MultiGen Loader provides?

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From: Michael T. Jones
Sent: Friday, October 25, 1996 9:27 AM
To: info-performer++at++sgi.com
Subject: re: *.flt to *.pfb

Thomas Steudten asks:

:we're looking for a tool, which converts flight files to .pfb files.

The tools is "pfconv" check it's manpage or just run it (it's in the
standard /usr/sbin directory). Also, "perfly -w something.pfb *.flt"
will do it, but perfly does things that you may not want to do to
your data (flatten, etc.) so the pfconv program is a better route.

:Can anyone tell us, where we can find it - and maybe where we can get
:some descriptions about the file-format .pfb.

The format is an IRIS Performer "binary dump" that loads very fast but
which is not something you'd probably want to use for any other purpose.

:The .pfb loader-library doesn't include a 'Store-function' that's right?

It *does* include a store function. That's what pfconv uses.

Regards,
Michael

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