Rawhide fonts problem report for 2009-07-20

[Qianqian Fang]

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
>