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. Twisting fontfile.c and fontdir.c to be able to pass all fonts (bitmap 1. Apply http://bugs.xfree86.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=491 and rebuild mkfontscale. 2. Make a directory full of fonts. $ cd /tmp $ mkdir fonts $ cd fonts $ cp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/*.pcf.gz . 3. Uncompress the fonts. This is optional, but if you don't do that, the next step will take minutes rather than seconds. $ gzip -d *.pcf.gz 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 You will get a number of failures, I'm looking into that. 5. Create a fonts.dir file: $ mkfontscale -b You'll get some warnings, and some of the generated names will not be quite right. Additionally, all non-Unicode fonts will get names ending in ``microsoft-symbol''. (Fixing that will require private extensions to the sfnt format.) 6. Test the new fonts. $ xset +fp `pwd` $ xlsfonts -ll -fn '-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-*-75-75-m-*-iso8859-1' | grep RASTERIZER_NAME RASTERIZER_NAME FreeType $ xfd -fn '-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-*-75-75-m-*-iso8859-1' Juliusz _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
