Re: Rawhide fonts problem report for 2009-07-20

2009-07-21 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mardi 21 juillet 2009 à 00:30 -0400, Qianqian Fang a écrit : when do you want the bitmap format conversion to happen? the sooner the better or convert them all together at some point? I don't think Fedora will want to do the conversion unilaterally. So that leaves out single-day conversion.

Re: Rawhide fonts problem report for 2009-07-20

2009-07-21 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mardi 21 juillet 2009 à 08:10 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : I don't think Fedora will want to do the conversion unilaterally. So that leaves out single-day conversion. It will take a long time to reach all the upstreams we package PCF fonts from, Though on reflection the audit script

Re: Rawhide fonts problem report for 2009-07-20

2009-07-20 Thread Qianqian Fang
Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On 07/20/2009 10:03 AM, Qianqian Fang wrote: Nicolas Mailhot wrote: ☛ Mid-term, files in legacy PCF or Type1 formats need to be converted or removed. just curious, for PCF, what format you plan to convert to ? I had tried SFNT TTF/OTF, neither of them works with the

Re: Rawhide fonts problem report for 2009-07-20

2009-07-20 Thread Qianqian Fang
Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On 07/20/2009 10:32 AM, Qianqian Fang wrote: Behdad Esfahbod wrote: On 07/20/2009 10:03 AM, Qianqian Fang wrote: Nicolas Mailhot wrote: ☛ Mid-term, files in legacy PCF or Type1 formats need to be converted or removed. just curious, for PCF, what format you plan to

Re: Rawhide fonts problem report for 2009-07-20

2009-07-20 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le lundi 20 juillet 2009 à 10:03 -0400, Qianqian Fang a écrit : Nicolas Mailhot wrote: ☛ Mid-term, files in legacy PCF or Type1 formats need to be converted or removed. just curious, for PCF, what format you plan to convert to ? Can I just dream bitmap fonts will go away ?

Re: Rawhide fonts problem report for 2009-07-20

2009-07-20 Thread Qianqian Fang
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le lundi 20 juillet 2009 à 10:03 -0400, Qianqian Fang a écrit : Nicolas Mailhot wrote: ☛ Mid-term, files in legacy PCF or Type1 formats need to be converted or removed. just curious, for PCF, what format you plan to convert to ? Can I just

Re: Rawhide fonts problem report for 2009-07-20

2009-07-20 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le lundi 20 juillet 2009 à 13:41 -0400, Qianqian Fang a écrit : Getting opentype bitmap/sfnt wrapper to work for bitmaps is definitely the way to go: it not only saves more than half of the space, but also makes rendering a lot faster. The only concern is the support to GTK1 applications