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 readily available to >> users alongside the existing BDFs, etc., so they can continue to use >> their decade-old favourites. > > Do you have a link to a recipe for such mechanical conversion? I think > we would still preserve the BDF as the "source" format but I'd > certainly be happy to install them as something other than PCF. (For > that matter I might like to ship my OS without PCF support in the > renderer at all.)
Isn't that what we wrote fnttosfnt for years ago and then never finished the plan to actually use it? https://keithp.com/blogs/fonttosfnt/ https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/fonttosfnt -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc _______________________________________________ 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
