I'm out of the office until 1st August. On 10 May 2011, at 05:17, Launchpad Bug Tracker <[email protected] > wrote:
> [Expired for gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (Ubuntu) because there has been no > activity for 60 days.] > > ** Changed in: gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (Ubuntu) > Status: Incomplete => Expired > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu > Font Family Drivers, which is subscribed to Ubuntu Font Family. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/732854 > > Title: > Wishlist: Use Ubuntu font for pre-installer gfxboot menus > > Status in Ubuntu Font Family: > Incomplete > Status in “gfxboot-theme-ubuntu” package in Ubuntu: > Expired > > Bug description: > Gfxboot displays the menus shown at the first step of the installer > CD. The font currently used is the 8x16 GNU unifont with space > removal to use it as a proportionally spaced font. The final result > is a unicode bitmap called '16x16.fnt' in the format which gfxboot > expects to read. Since this is proportional and flexible than the > other other bitmap console environments, we can use the fonts that > are > already available. > > In the 'gfxboot-theme-ubuntu' source code 'Makefile', the recipe I've > been testing is: > > font 16x16.fnt 16x16.fnt.log: keytables.inc install/log boot/log > langlist langnames.inc > @if [ -z "$(DI_PATH)" ]; then echo "Please set DI_PATH to > an unpacked debian-installer source tree" >&2; exit 1; fi > cat po/*.po >tmp.txt > cat $(DI_PATH)/build/boot/x86/po/*.po >>tmp.txt > gfxboot-font -v -v -v -v -H 16 -l 18 -p "/usr/share/fonts/ > truetype/ubuntu-font-family/:/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" \ > -c ISO-8859-15 -c ISO-8859-2 -c koi8-r \ > `$(KEYMAPCHARS) keytables.inc` \ > -t tmp.txt \ > -t install/log -t boot/log \ > -t langlist -t langnames.inc \ > -f Ubuntu-R:space_width=4:size=14:autohint=0 \ > -f unifont:prop=2:space_width=4 \ > 16x16.fnt >16x16.fnt.log > rm -f tmp.txt > > The output can then be visually explored using 'less 16x16.fnt.log'. > The font is data-only and is also built manually rather than as part > of the package build process. 'gfxboot-font' was previously called > 'mkblfont' in versions of Ubuntu up until Lucid. The 'gfxboot-font' > program can be found in the 'gfxboot-dev' package. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/732854 Title: Wishlist: Use Ubuntu font for pre-installer gfxboot menus To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+bug/732854/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
