Colin D Bennett wrote: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:31:31 +0000 > "Matt Sturgeon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> will all these fonts be included in the next release of GRUB 2? > > Probably not; the licenses may not be compatible with GPLv3. These > fonts are ones that came with X.Org on my system, and I just exported > them to BDF files with 'xmbdfed' and then converted the BDF files to > PF2 files with the GRUB font converter. > > Some of the fonts I used during my development of the graphical menu > system are from the "Artwiz" bitmap font collection, which is a set of > several fonts, but most all quite small in size (really no selection of > font size within a font). > > I haven't spent a lot of time seeking out good free fonts that we could > include in GRUB. I use the fabulous Liberation TrueType fonts on my > desktop, but these are outline fonts, not bitmap fonts. I tried > creating a bitmap font from some decent TrueType outline fonts using > xmbdfed, but the results were quite ugly, so I gave up on that.
Font issue is actually a bit problematic. At least there has to be some font somewhere that we can give to users so they can actually use graphical terminal :) Are there any free fonts that we can use ? _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
