Michal Suchanek wrote: > 2009/11/25 Robert Millan <r...@aybabtu.com>: > >> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:43:30PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' >> Serbinenko wrote: >> >>> I identified number of fonts as one of the reason of gfxmenu needing >>> important amount of time to load. I prefer to have few nice looking free >>> fonts with reasonable unicode coverage (we'll need it because of >>> gettext) and load only ones really needed >>> [...] >>> >>>> I think that true bitmap fonts will look much, much better than >>>> converted outline fonts, but perhaps if we added an 8-bit alpha channel >>>> to the font format and grub-mkfont could do anti-aliasing during the >>>> conversion process; then I think we could make use of all the free >>>> outline fonts >>>> >>> I'm ok wth doing any kind of preprocessing in grub-mkfont but grub2 has >>> to remain simple in order to ensure reasonable performance even on slow >>> system (curren't it's not the case and more work is needed for >>> optimising it) >>> >> I understand there's a lot of room for improvement, but it'd be interesting >> to >> start providing a basic set of fonts so that we get the ball rolling and >> theme authors can beging doing their artist work. >> >> Has someone obtained a working multi-size setup with grub-mkfont + unifont? >> Currently I just know that the default ascii.pf2 works (but doesn't have any >> single-size theme that would play well with it). >> >> > > Does grub-mkfont support writing .pf2 files from any font? > > IIRC there was a glyph searching optimization committed into Grub > which uses binary search instead of linear search. > This requires either that font glyphs are sorted by Unicode codepoint > (which they supposedly are in unifont) or that grub-mkfont sorts them > while creating the .pf2 file. > > grub-mkfont should sort ranges, it's clearly a bug. Patch to fix grub-mkfont is welcome (you can use qsort to sort them) > 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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