Re: Rawhide fonts problem report for 2009-07-20

[Qianqian Fang <fangqq@xxxxxxxxx>]

hey, I am so supprised, I downloaded the SFNT ttf font I made
3 years ago, and did an fc-cache, you know what? it worked!

some magic must had happened in the past 3 years, and I am really
glad that this multi-strike SFNT bitmap font is now supported. This
cuts the package size from 6.2M for the original PCF font down to
only 2M, and I believe the rendering speed will also boost significantly.

Nicolas:

when do you want the bitmap format conversion to happen? the sooner
the better or convert them all together at some point?

Qianqian


Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 07/20/2009 10:32 AM, Qianqian Fang wrote:
> > Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > > On 07/20/2009 10:03 AM, Qianqian Fang wrote:
> > > > Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > > > > ☛ Mid-term, files in legacy PCF or Type1 formats need to be converted
> > > > > or removed.
> > > >
> > > > just curious, for PCF, what format you plan to convert to ?
> > > >
> > > > I had tried SFNT TTF/OTF, neither of them works with the current
> > > > fontconfig
> > > > (cache file could not be generated).
> > >
> > > File a bug?!?!?
> > >
> > > behdad
> >
> > yes, I brought it up on fontconfig's mailing list in 2006,
>
> That's not filing a bug.
>
>
> > mpsuzuki posted a patch, but it has never been committed.
>
> That's exactly why one should file a bug.
>
>
> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2006-August/002364.html
> >
> > also, it seemed there were some intrinsic difficulties for fontconfig to
> > handle multi-strike sfnt ttf.
> >
> > Qianqian
>
> behdad

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