But as you can see from the verbose output, because of these warnings, it 
produces only 95 glyphs as opposed to the expected 128.  As for the quality, it 
is much lower than the fonts produced by earlier versions.

----- Original Message -----
From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: 
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: grub-mkfont generate errors when converting truetype fonts

On 22.02.2012 03:17, Towheed Mohammed wrote:
> Whenever you grub-mkfont is used to convert truetype fonts to PFF2 fonts, it 
> generates several errors.  For example:
> grub-mkfont -v -s 12 -r 0x0-0x7F -o ~/Documents/dejavu-sans-12.pf2 
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
> gives the following error:
It's not errors. Just warnings that the resulting pf2 will be of lesser quality 
than source TTF
> This is a long-standing issue with grub-mkfont that started somewhere in the 
> later releases of 1.98.  This never occurred in earlier releaes of 1.98.
The earlier versions just ignored the features altogether. Newer report them 
but it's *warnings*, not errors.


-- Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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