XB> I'm trying to use some bitmapped fonts with Xft, but they're all XB> packaged as .bdf.gz or .pcf.gz, and freetype can't read that.
Correct. XB> I could manually gunzip all my font directories, but then next upgrade XB> will mess it up. Correct. There are three people in the world who understand the ``hold'' feature of dpkg, but nobody is quite sure who they are. XB> Either X fonts packages should ship gunzipped fonts, or freetype should XB> s/open/gzopen/g ... The latter is difficult -- FreeType thinks it can seek around font files. The former is not advised, as uncompressed PCF are *huge*. So for now you're pretty much stuck. Sorry for that. The long-term solution is to switch from PCF and BDF to a FreeType-friendly format for bitmap fonts -- we're going to use a variant of Apple's sfnt resource format, also (incorrectly) known as ``bitmap-only TTFs''. Unfortunately, the switch won't happen in time for 4.3.0. You can have a sneak preview of the work on the bitmap-only sfnt format by playing with fonttootf, which you'll find somewhere on http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/files/ Please be aware that this is early alpha code, and that it may do anything at all. Juliusz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
