Hello, On
http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/files/freetype-bitmap-20030327.patch.gz you will find a patch that has the following effects: - makes the XFree86 server use the system-wide FreeType library rather than the one included with XFree86; - makes the FreeType backend grok bitmap fonts (BDF, PCF and sfnt-wrapped); - makes some minor changes to the fontdir logic to pass bitmap entries to scalable backends. The latter change is necessary because the bitmap entry points do not provide enough information to perform on-the-fly reencoding (or at least I think so). Keith, could you please check my changes to fontfile? Known bugs include the fact that it will only deal correctly with Unicode-encoded PCF fonts, due to a limitation of current versions of FreeType. It would deal correctly with BDF fonts, were it not for a different bug in FreeType. If you're courageous, you should be able to compile a server with this patch and with the legacy bitmap backends compiled out. Note, however, that doing that will currently break mkfontdir. Things remaining to do: - fix the issues with the FreeType libs; - fix fonttosfnt now that it can actually be used; - fix mkfontdir; - implement fontconfig-based FPEs. I'll be away from e-mail next week, so please don't worry if you receive no reply from me over that period. Regards, Juliusz P.S. David, it goes without saying that this patch is not ready to be committed. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
