Michal Suchanek wrote: > 2009/11/24 Robert Millan <r...@aybabtu.com>: > >> Hi, >> >> Help is needed in order to provide the last bit that will make gfxmenu >> functional: fonts of multiple sizes. >> >> The sample tarball at http://grub.gibibit.com/files/overlay_2009-07-19.tar.gz >> includes a set of prebuilt fonts. They were built using a Java utility >> which ended up being replaced with grub-mkfont in our repository. >> >> In order to provide the basic infrastructure so that theme authors can >> begin developing their artwork, we need GRUB to build fonts from the original >> unifont files (unifont.bdf or unifont.pcf.gz). >> >> Can someone figure out appropiate parameters for grub-mkfont, such that >> when applied on unifont.bdf or unifont.pcf.gz they will output suitable >> PF2 font files? A font file is suitable if it can be used to replace the >> prebuilt ones in overlay_2009-07-19.tar.gz and its themes can still use >> them. >> > > I suspect what you are asking is impossible. > > As far as I understand unifont is a single bitmap font in a single > pixel size and the tarball you sent contains multiple font faces in > multiple sizes. > While usually it's a bad idea to scale bitmap font it can be done and for our uses (mainly downscale and a bit of upscale) it may be appropriate for our usage. > It could be achieved by converting the said fonts rather than unifont > but it seems you want to avoid that for some reason. > > Thanks > > Michal > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > >
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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