Am Dienstag, den 24.11.2009, 19:12 +0100 schrieb Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko: > 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.
grub-mkfont supports as input files everything libfreetype supports. TTF is supported and there's also a unifont.ttf. But our own .pf2 format is bitmap not outline. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer
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