Fwd: Bitmap fonts update -- please test

forwarded from Devel list, following discussion on fonts in XFree86.

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Subject: Bitmap fonts update -- please test
Date: Thursday 27 March 2003 22:23
From: Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], Markus Kuhn <[email protected]>

Hello,

On

http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/files/freetype-bitmap-20030327.patch.gz

you will find a patch that has the following effects:

  - makes the XFree86 server use the system-wide FreeType library
    rather than the one included with XFree86;
  - makes the FreeType backend grok bitmap fonts (BDF, PCF and sfnt-wrapped);
  - makes some minor changes to the fontdir logic to pass bitmap
    entries to scalable backends.

The latter change is necessary because the bitmap entry points do not
provide enough information to perform on-the-fly reencoding (or at
least I think so).  Keith, could you please check my changes to
fontfile?

Known bugs include the fact that it will only deal correctly with
Unicode-encoded PCF fonts, due to a limitation of current versions of
FreeType.  It would deal correctly with BDF fonts, were it not for a
different bug in FreeType.

If you're courageous, you should be able to compile a server with this
patch and with the legacy bitmap backends compiled out.  Note,
however, that doing that will currently break mkfontdir.

Things remaining to do:

  - fix the issues with the FreeType libs;
  - fix fonttosfnt now that it can actually be used;
  - fix mkfontdir;
  - implement fontconfig-based FPEs.

I'll be away from e-mail next week, so please don't worry if you
receive no reply from me over that period.

Regards,

                                        Juliusz

P.S. David, it goes without saying that this patch is not ready to be
committed.
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