Fonts: Pango Drops Bitmap Support.

[Alan Coopersmith]

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

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