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 user's font, gimp unable to paint bitmap fonts, etc. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues/386 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 existing BDFs, etc., so they can continue to use their decade-old favourites. Fonts aren't my speciality, nor Pango, so apologies if I've grasped the stick wrong. Pango 1.44 is when this change will hit most users. As I run Arch Linux, I've already met it! -- Cheers, Ralph. _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
