Colin D Bennett wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:35:55 +0100 > Robert Millan <r...@aybabtu.com> wrote: > > >> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 04:27:13PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> >>> I suspect what you are asking is impossible. >>> >>> As far as I understand unifont is a single bitmap font in a single >>> pixel size and the tarball you sent contains multiple font faces in >>> multiple sizes. >>> >> Any idea how were those fonts built, then? >> > > I just took a bunch of fonts from my Gentoo Linux system and converted > them. It is just a quick demonstration of how many types, sizes, and > styles of fonts can be used (e.g., small to huge; sans-serif, > monospaced, and serif; italic and normal; etc.). > I identified number of fonts as one of the reason of gfxmenu needing important amount of time to load. I prefer to have few nice looking free fonts with reasonable unicode coverage (we'll need it because of gettext) and load only ones really needed > >> Why would I want to convert those fonts? My goal is figuring out how >> to provide suitable font files out of the usual selection of free >> fonts that is provided by distributors. So far I only know of >> unifont in this selection, but there's certainly more. Can you help? >> > > I think that true bitmap fonts will look much, much better than > converted outline fonts, but perhaps if we added an 8-bit alpha channel > to the font format and grub-mkfont could do anti-aliasing during the > conversion process; then I think we could make use of all the free > outline fonts I'm ok wth doing any kind of preprocessing in grub-mkfont but grub2 has to remain simple in order to ensure reasonable performance even on slow system (curren't it's not the case and more work is needed for optimising it) > > Regards, > Colin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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