Re: Fonts: Pango Drops Bitmap Support.
On 7/30/19 10:32 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Mon, 2019-07-29 at 14:36 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > >> Is there any chance X.org can ship their super collection of fonts as >> OpenType bitmaps as well? I understand it's a mechanical conversion. >> That would allow distro packagers to make them readily available to >> users alongside the existing BDFs, etc., so they can continue to use >> their decade-old favourites. > > Do you have a link to a recipe for such mechanical conversion? I think > we would still preserve the BDF as the "source" format but I'd > certainly be happy to install them as something other than PCF. (For > that matter I might like to ship my OS without PCF support in the > renderer at all.) Isn't that what we wrote fnttosfnt for years ago and then never finished the plan to actually use it? https://keithp.com/blogs/fonttosfnt/ https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/fonttosfnt -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc ___ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
Re: Fonts: Pango Drops Bitmap Support.
On Mon, 2019-07-29 at 14:36 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Is there any chance X.org can ship their super collection of fonts as > OpenType bitmaps as well? I understand it's a mechanical conversion. > That would allow distro packagers to make them readily available to > users alongside the existing BDFs, etc., so they can continue to use > their decade-old favourites. Do you have a link to a recipe for such mechanical conversion? I think we would still preserve the BDF as the "source" format but I'd certainly be happy to install them as something other than PCF. (For that matter I might like to ship my OS without PCF support in the renderer at all.) - ajax ___ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
Fonts: Pango Drops Bitmap Support.
Hi, Pango has just dropped its support for bitmap fonts. As it uses Harfbuzz, it can still use Harfbuzz's support for OpenType's bitmap format. https://fontforge.github.io/bitmaponlysfnt.html#X11 This Pango change has caused some grief, e.g. terminal emulators displaying boxes instead of the user's font, gimp unable to paint bitmap fonts, etc. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues/386 Is there any chance X.org can ship their super collection of fonts as OpenType bitmaps as well? I understand it's a mechanical conversion. That would allow distro packagers to make them readily available to users alongside the existing BDFs, etc., so they can continue to use their decade-old favourites. Fonts aren't my speciality, nor Pango, so apologies if I've grasped the stick wrong. Pango 1.44 is when this change will hit most users. As I run Arch Linux, I've already met it! -- Cheers, Ralph. ___ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
