On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:52:51 +0800 Bean <bean12...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Vesa Jääskeläinen <ch...@nic.fi> > wrote: > > Jerone Young wrote: > >> I just paid attention to this (sorry). So everything seems fine. > >> But the dependency on a proprietary java stack to generate fonts > >> isn't good. Does it happen to work with gcc java ? > > > > Paying attention is not a bad thing as such :) > > > > Never tried it myself but it should work. There isn't anything > > special on it. As long as Java 1.5 is being supported. > > > > Anyway... idea was to get rid of it as soon as possible. I just > > didn't feel right to hold features because of this. > > Hi, > > I think we can use freetype2 library. It supports both bitmap and > outline fonts, and we don't need to parse font file ourselves.
That's an idea worth looking into. I did look into it early on in the graphical menu design process, and I can't recall why I abandoned the idea at the time. > BTW, where can I find document on the new font format ? See <http://grub.gibibit.com/New_font_format> or its mirror on the GRUB wiki, <http://grub.enbug.org/FontFormat>. Regards, Colin
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