Re: bloatware

Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.forum
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VP> On the other hand, Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]> sent
VP> updated info about bitmapped fonts support in XFree86 (to :
VP> [email protected], [email protected] mailing lists)

In case somebody is interested, I'm currently working on moving away
from the legacy PCF font format in favour of a TTF based one.  The
TTF-based format is extremely compact (typically smaller than pcf.gz)
but is not compressed, and thus enables efficiently accessing subsets
of fonts and font recoding.

Unfortunately, making the switch requires some changes to the fontfile
core, which is an extremely unpleasant job.

                                        Juliusz
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