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Subject: Re: [Freetype] Help with font improvement
From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch () pps ! jussieu ! fr>
Date: 2002-12-19 18:59:31
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VP> AFAIK you can include embedded bitmaps into TrueType fonts, too.
Yes. I was pointing out the advantages of OTF/CFF over Type 1.
VP> BTW: when we would get rid of .pcf and .bdf fonts in X?
You're not reading enough mailing lists ;-)
Juliusz
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From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr>
Subject: Re: [Fonts]Will 4.3.0 get rid of 8bit bitmap fonts?
To: fonts@XFree86.Org
Date: 19 Dec 2002 18:59:41 +0100
MH> There has been much discussion in the past of getting rid of the
MH> ISO8859-* bitmap fonts generated by ucs2any et al. The last
MH> discussion I recall on this was that ttf font file format would
MH> be used with embedded bitmaps. Is this still planned for 4.3.0?
I'm far from ready. Here's the things that remain to be done, in no
particular order:
1. find somebody who can debug Windows to find out why the fonts
generated by fonttootf don't work on that platform;
2. modify fonttootf to properly generate font-level metrics (they are
currently hardwired for fixed);
3. modify mkfontscale to generate bitmap entries for bitmap fonts;
4. modify the FreeType backend to do reasonable things with bitmap
entries.
I need help for 1 -- I'm just not competent to deal with it. 2. is
simple but tedious, and will require hacking at FreeType to get access
to BDF properties. 3 is ready in my private tree (I'll probably want
to rework it), 4 is really not difficult.
Additionally, I'll probably want to modify the FreeType backend to
discard faces associated to open fonts when they've not been used for
some time.
Juliusz
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