11:30 p.m.
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
1:10 a.m.
New subject: Rawhide fonts problem report for 2009-07-20
Le mardi 21 juillet 2009 à 00:30 -0400, Qianqian Fang a écrit :
when do you want the bitmap format conversion to happen? the sooner
the better or convert them all together at some point?
I don't think Fedora will want to do the conversion unilaterally. So
that leaves out single-day conversion. It will take a long time to reach
all the upstreams we package PCF fonts from, and to convince them to
change (and then some will probably never move so there will probably be
a "dump remaining pcfs" days).
It will probably also expose a few bugs application-side so they'll have
to be reported and fixed.
If you can make a few upstreams to switch and document the conversion
somewhere I'll be happy to make it an error in the checking switch and
them propose to ban new pcf fonts in Fedora guidelines. Having some
high-visibility projects such as terminus to convert first would be a
good start (I'm pretty sure using opentype features such as locl would
help terminus shed all the optional patches it carries).
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Nicolas Mailhot
1:18 a.m.
New subject: Rawhide fonts problem report for 2009-07-20
Le mardi 21 juillet 2009 à 08:10 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit :
I don't think Fedora will want to do the conversion unilaterally.
So
that leaves out single-day conversion. It will take a long time to reach
all the upstreams we package PCF fonts from,
Though on reflection the audit script only reports 11 affected srpms
Format Files rpm srpm Files (MiB) rpm (MiB)
PCF 204 6 6 32 52
– font files in other packages (we should not find any!)
Format Files rpm srpm Files (MiB) rpm (MiB)
PCF 872 10 5 13 55
So it looks manageable. And xorg is probably the bulk of it.
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Nicolas Mailhot
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