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On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Yu Shao wrote:
Jungshik Shin wrote:
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Yu Shao wrote:
I don't get you here, the first version of the patch was made for Red
Hat 7.3, at that time we have to use Mozilla with X core font. Since
then the patch has been there almost unchanged.
In order to preserve bitmap font names as we switch to sfnt for
XFree86, I need to have fonttosfnt put the original font name in some
place where mkfontscale can find it.
The proper way would be to formally define a new sfnt table, for
example ``XF86''. However, I think it is simpler and quite
I want to make one point clear, that is *.enc encoding files are used by
fontenc layer only, adding gb18030.2000*.enc doesn't mean telling
XFree86 how to handle gb18030 codes in all parts, but in fontenc
layer(FreeType module) ONLY.
Looking at Sun's gb18030.2000-1, they seem convert all
It is now possible to use bitmap-only SFNTs in XFree86. There is very
little left to do at the server level, some more work is needed at the
level of fonttosfnt and mkfontscale.
0. Check you've got the right version of XFree86.
$ cvs log xc/lib/font/fontfile/fontdir.c | grep 289
289.
4. Convert all the fonts to bitmap-only sfnt, and give them the
extension ttf (for now -- see my next message):
$ for i in *.pcf; do fonttosfnt -o ${i%.pcf}.ttf $i ; done
$ rm *.pcf
Sorry, forgot an important step: transcoded fonts should be removed,
on-the-fly transcoding will happen.
In order to preserve bitmap font names as we switch to sfnt for
XFree86, I need to have fonttosfnt put the original font name in
some place where mkfontscale can find it.
The proper way would be to formally define a new sfnt table, for
example ``XF86''. However, I think it is simpler and
