Around 17 o'clock on Aug 13, Zenith Lau wrote:

> I suppose it should be work, but, I can't see my bitmap fonts in fc-list
> output.

FreeType doesn't (yet) support compressed PCF fonts.  I've since had a 
revelation that we should discard PCF font files and replace them with TTF 
files containing an embedded bitmap.  This would eliminate miles of 
senseless code in X while providing the automatic transcoding features we 
have for TrueType fonts.  Font files would be dramatically smaller as they 
would use a TrueType encoding instead of the single array present in PCF 
files.

If anyone has experience writing TrueType font files, help would be 
greatly appreciated in building something that can create these new files.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab


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