Hi Martin, > Thanks for the offer. I think creating a font from scratch with even "the most common scripts would be a lot of work though." It took me 2-3 hours to create each of sans8 and sans8b. I don't consider that 'a lot of work'. It is some amount of work, but it definitely is manageable.
"I guess we could: 1) Use freetype2 library (or some other tool like FontForge) to convert OpenType fonts to bitmap pcf fonts." Yup. Although I doubt the quality will be stellar. It might be better if the resulting bitmap fonts allowed for shades of gray, because with anti- aliasing freetype output might look less crappy. But pcf does not support shades of gray AFAIK. 2) Add freetype2 to coastline and use it to render OpenType fonts to "bitmap on-the-fly (provided that freetype was installed). According to its documentation, the library should be pretty straightforward to port[1]." This would solve the problem with shades of gray. Note that this creates a sort of hard dependency of mainline on the coastline. I am not saying that it's a bad thing, not sure if we can avoid it in the future. Cheers, Jiri
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