On 7/30/19 10:32 AM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-07-29 at 14:36 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>
>> Is there any chance X.org can ship their super collection of fonts as
>> OpenType bitmaps as well? I understand it's a mechanical conversion.
>> That would allow distro packagers to make them
On Mon, 2019-07-29 at 14:36 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Is there any chance X.org can ship their super collection of fonts as
> OpenType bitmaps as well? I understand it's a mechanical conversion.
> That would allow distro packagers to make them readily available to
> users alongside the exist
Hi,
Pango has just dropped its support for bitmap fonts. As it uses
Harfbuzz, it can still use Harfbuzz's support for OpenType's bitmap
format. https://fontforge.github.io/bitmaponlysfnt.html#X11
This Pango change has caused some grief, e.g. terminal emulators
displaying boxes instead of the us
