On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Boris Pek wrote: > I saw a lot of your messages related to fonts in Debian, also there was one > or few posts in your blog (I do not remember precisely). So it looks that > your well versed in this matter. > > Could you comment our discussion about astromenace-data package? Quotation:
I would simply echo what I wrote on the freedesktop wiki (slightly reworded): Render text at runtime (enables i18n) or maybe build time. Use the system fonts. If you choose a specific font then use fontconfig to find it rather than bundling it with your project. If you create your own special font, please distribute it in source form (for example FontForge text format) and ensure that it can be built using free tools. When you enable i18n your chosen font probably won't have all the required characters so your text rendering system should be prepared to fall back on other fonts on the system. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Games/Upstream If you are involved with upstream or can get a patch included, the best way to follow my advice is to use one of the Qt, pango or QuesoGLC libraries (or toolkits/wrappers that use them) to render text at runtime. Any other option is suboptimal. In addition, this being Debian, we have dependencies and should use them to pull in fonts. Here is an example of how to do that: http://sourceforge.net/p/chromium-bsu/code/ci/master/tree/src/TextGLC.cpp http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-games/packages/trunk/chromium-bsu/debian/control?view=markup If you are looking for a simple workaround for upstream not rendering text this way, Built-Using seems like a reasonable compromise. I'm not sure if it works with non-free packages, check with the ftpmasters. http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/FTPMaster Honestly though, if upstream is bundling font files in a binary blob then probably using fontconfig to find the right font files automatically from the system fonts catalog is going to be very easy and fit reasonably well to the current code. Based on the astromenace control file it looks like upstream is using freetype, I'm guessing they use FT_New_Memory_Face to load the fonts. To implement this, you would need to switch to FT_New_Face and use fontconfig to feed the font filename to FT_New_Face. To find out the font filename from the font name using fontconfig check out the chromium-bsu code again: http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/tutorial/step1.html http://sourceforge.net/p/chromium-bsu/code/ci/master/tree/src/TextFTGL.cpp#l91 I'm subscribed to the list, no need to CC. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6Gfs=ggsimkykbgitkwunqqy-sygcezts1ie0xss7h...@mail.gmail.com