The current version 1.0 of Fen2eps provides 19 different chess
fonts for creating board diagrams. The outlines of the chess pieces
are stored in special definition files, which have the extension `*.fed'
and can be found in the `fen' directory.
These files also contain information about the different heights and widths
of the single ``characters''.
The fonts were downloaded from www.enpassant.dk in TrueType format and then converted to Postscript outlines with the help of Pfaedit. Please, regard that the copyright is still with their authors Armando Hernandez Marroquin, Eric Bentzen and Egon Madsen. All fonts are freeware and may be used for non-commercial purposes only!
Fen2eps does not have something like a built-in font. For maximum
flexibility it always needs an external `*.fed' file where it can
extract the piece outlines from. If nothing else is specified, Fen2eps
looks for the font file `default.fed' which is present in
the same directory as the executable. Right after unZIPing the archive,
this default font file is a copy of the font ``Chess Merida''
(filename: `merida.fed').
If you don't like it, all you have to do is to overwrite the file
`default.fed' with one of the other `*.fed' files.
For an overview you can take a look at the
list of fonts (ZIPed PS, 500KB).
Afterwards, the new font is used for creating the EPS diagrams.
As an alternative, you can use the option ``-f'', followed by the
name of the font definition file that should be used instead of
`default.fed'.
So, replacing
cp fed/marroq.fed default.fed
fen2eps < a.fen > a.eps
you could also say
fen2eps -f fed/marroq.fed < a.fen > a.eps
which leaves the default font file untouched.