Around 18 o'clock on Jun 20, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> Not directly, no, but there's nothing that prevents us from abusing > the OTF spec and adding a private ``XF86'' table. (Table names are > restricted to 4 bytes, and tables starting with a capital are > private.) Seems like a good plan. > If you want to experiment, I believe that pfaedit can generate such > beasts. If you decide that's the way to go, I'll be glad to cook a > standalone and GPL-free bdftootf utility and implement support in the > core fonts system. I'm trying to think of a reason not to replace the core fonts with this format. We'd continue to support .pcf, but would build .ttf files by default and could provide a pcf->ttf conversion program easily enough. It sounds like the right direction, I'll want to think about it a bit before making the plunge. Keith Packard XFree86 Core Team HP Cambridge Research Lab _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
