On 2021-07-13 16:23, Chris wrote:
On 2021-07-13 15:50, Janky Jay, III wrote:Hello Jan,On 7/13/21 3:15 PM, Jan Beich wrote:"Janky Jay, III" <[email protected]> writes:Hi All, So, I'm unsure if this is where this should go, but it did happen after a recent port (pkg) upgrade of a FreeBSD 13.0 desktop system that I've been running. I'd moved from "quarterly" to "latest" and got the updates and now my XFCE4 desktop doesn't display any of the fonts I was previously using. I only have the three basic fonts options of "Dejavu", "Luxi", and "Monospace."Maybe related to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/issues/386 pango 1.42.4 -> 1.48.4 happened on 2021-05-24 which is now on /quarterly.Holy cow! With bitmap fonts being unsupported in the 1.44 and later releases of pango, that'll surely cause what I'm seeing. Being as I just bumped my pkg repository to use /latest instead of /quarterly last week and seeing this, a bigger question now is, how many people this is going to effect now that this update has hit /quarterly? That's a huge bummer but thank you very much for the info!Apologies in advance if I'm MISremembering this. But doesn't the build for fontconfig have an option for handling bitmap fonts? I too am on Xfce4 (but a older version) and I'm (currently) still able to read/display bitmap fonts.
Sorry (I'm spread a bit too thin today). I meant print/freetype2 and the option
is; PNG: Png compressed OpenType embedded bitmaps support. I see it's now on by default (used to have to select it). I don't know whether Xfce4 uses it or print/freetype. But if your building you might be able to build Freetype2, and rebuild Xfce4. Just thought I'd mention it in case you aren't using it.
OTOH you're right. It's going to be time to start converting all those bitmap fonts we've all come to depend on, if they're not going to be supported going forward. --ChrisRegards, Janky Jay, III
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