Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed

[Michal Suchanek]

2009/11/24 Robert Millan <address@hidden>:
>
> Hi,
>
> Help is needed in order to provide the last bit that will make gfxmenu
> functional: fonts of multiple sizes.
>
> The sample tarball at http://grub.gibibit.com/files/overlay_2009-07-19.tar.gz
> includes a set of prebuilt fonts.  They were built using a Java utility
> which ended up being replaced with grub-mkfont in our repository.
>
> In order to provide the basic infrastructure so that theme authors can
> begin developing their artwork, we need GRUB to build fonts from the original
> unifont files (unifont.bdf or unifont.pcf.gz).
>
> Can someone figure out appropiate parameters for grub-mkfont, such that
> when applied on unifont.bdf or unifont.pcf.gz they will output suitable
> PF2 font files?  A font file is suitable if it can be used to replace the
> prebuilt ones in overlay_2009-07-19.tar.gz and its themes can still use
> them.

I suspect what you are asking is impossible.

As far as I understand unifont is a single bitmap font in a single
pixel size and the tarball you sent contains multiple font faces in
multiple sizes.

It could be achieved by converting the said fonts rather than unifont
but it seems you want to avoid that for some reason.

Thanks

Michal