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