On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 10:05:28PM -0700, Paul Hardy wrote: > > > Here is a new port: converters/bdf2psf. > > > ... > > > > Ping. Anyone willing to look at this? Thanks. > > I am not the right person to comment on how good an OpenBSD > package is, but am glad to see bdf2psf getting packaged. > > I am the GNU Unifont maintainer, and would like to package > Unifont for OpenBSD. I have a version that builds on OpenBSD > now, but it needs bdf2psf to build a 512-glyph font for > programming in APL in console mode. > > Can OpenBSD use a PSF font with 512 glyphs? If not, I can > build it on OpenBSD but not install it.
First of all, sorry for the late reply. OpenBSD doesn't support PSF files, the reason why I created a package for it is so I can generate PSF files for Spleen [1] releases without having to boot another operating system. > Here are the main pages describing the current release of > Unifont and the software that builds all of its fonts: > > http://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html > > http://unifoundry.com/unifont/unifont-utilities.html > > I plan to add a couple more programs in the next version that > will handle VGA console fonts that OpenBSD uses. This could also be done from the PSF files using psf2raw(1) from the sysutils/psftools port. This will produce a font which can be loaded into a wscons display device with wsfontload(8). > I have not packaged anything for OpenBSD and think it will be > a while before I have the package ready for review. I thought > I'd go over this now though because of your packaging bdf2psf. Brian Callahan (bcallah@), imported a package for unifont back in September, with the TTF version. [1] https://github.com/fcambus/spleen
