Re: [arch-general] pango 1:1.44-1 Renders Bitmap Fonts as Boxes.

2019-07-30 Thread Yurii Kolesnykov
Maybe some good people could just fork it? Like LinuxMint or Gentoo? > 30 лип. 2019 р. о 05:53 Eli Schwartz via arch-general > написав(ла): > > On 7/29/19 10:35 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: >> So Gnome just KDE4'ed pango Type 1 support. It is bewildering why support >> simply can't remain. Nothi

Re: [arch-general] pango 1:1.44-1 Renders Bitmap Fonts as Boxes.

2019-07-29 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 7/29/19 10:35 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > So Gnome just KDE4'ed pango Type 1 support. It is bewildering why support > simply can't remain. Nothing like pacman -Syu and having things break -- > things that have been working -- forever. > > Whatever the fight between Cairo and Pango over FC_face

Re: [arch-general] pango 1:1.44-1 Renders Bitmap Fonts as Boxes.

2019-07-29 Thread David C. Rankin
On 07/28/2019 06:49 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi, > > To save others' time, on upgrading to pango 1:1.44-1 today my terminal > emulator and other programs displayed empty boxes instead of bitmap-font > glyphs. This is due to deliberate dropping of support by Pango. > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GN

Re: [arch-general] pango 1:1.44-1 Renders Bitmap Fonts as Boxes.

2019-07-29 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 7/29/19 8:31 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > It's worth keeping an eye on > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues/386 Yep -- great issue to keep an eye on. "I was told that you intentionally removed support for this, is that true?" "Yes, that's why the blog post said so." "Well, but what

Re: [arch-general] pango 1:1.44-1 Renders Bitmap Fonts as Boxes.

2019-07-29 Thread ProgAndy
> >>> You can convert your BDF/PCF fonts to the "X11 bitmap only sfnt >>> (otb)" OpenType format[1], which harfbuzz does support[2]. >> >> So these aren't "my" fonts. I'm using one of the bitmapped fonts that >> ships with X in xorg-fonts-misc as my terminal font. > > `My' bitmap fonts are also

Re: [arch-general] pango 1:1.44-1 Renders Bitmap Fonts as Boxes.

2019-07-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi David, > > You can convert your BDF/PCF fonts to the "X11 bitmap only sfnt > > (otb)" OpenType format[1], which harfbuzz does support[2]. > > So these aren't "my" fonts. I'm using one of the bitmapped fonts that > ships with X in xorg-fonts-misc as my terminal font. `My' bitmap fonts are also

Re: [arch-general] pango 1:1.44-1 Renders Bitmap Fonts as Boxes.

2019-07-28 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 7/28/19 3:52 PM, ProgAndy wrote: Am 28.07.19 um 20:35 schrieb David Rosenstrauch: On 7/28/19 7:49 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, To save others' time, on upgrading to pango 1:1.44-1 today my terminal emulator and other programs displayed empty boxes instead of bitmap-font glyphs.  This is

Re: [arch-general] pango 1:1.44-1 Renders Bitmap Fonts as Boxes.

2019-07-28 Thread ProgAndy
Am 28.07.19 um 20:35 schrieb David Rosenstrauch: > On 7/28/19 7:49 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote: >> Hi, >> >> To save others' time, on upgrading to pango 1:1.44-1 today my terminal >> emulator and other programs displayed empty boxes instead of bitmap-font >> glyphs.  This is due to deliberate dropping

Re: [arch-general] pango 1:1.44-1 Renders Bitmap Fonts as Boxes.

2019-07-28 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 7/28/19 7:49 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, To save others' time, on upgrading to pango 1:1.44-1 today my terminal emulator and other programs displayed empty boxes instead of bitmap-font glyphs. This is due to deliberate dropping of support by Pango. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issu

[arch-general] pango 1:1.44-1 Renders Bitmap Fonts as Boxes.

2019-07-28 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, To save others' time, on upgrading to pango 1:1.44-1 today my terminal emulator and other programs displayed empty boxes instead of bitmap-font glyphs. This is due to deliberate dropping of support by Pango. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues/386 I don't think xterm(1) uses Pango gi