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Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko |
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Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:12:24 +0100 |
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Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 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.
>
While usually it's a bad idea to scale bitmap font it can be done and
for our uses (mainly downscale and a bit of upscale) it may be
appropriate for our usage.
> 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
>
>
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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- Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed, (continued)
- Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed, feng shu, 2009/11/25
- Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed, Michal Suchanek, 2009/11/25
- Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2009/11/25
- Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed, Michal Suchanek, 2009/11/25
- Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed, feng shu, 2009/11/25
- Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed, feng shu, 2009/11/25
- Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed, Michal Suchanek, 2009/11/25
- Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2009/11/25
Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed,
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <=
Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed, Qianqian Fang, 2009/11/25
- Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed, Felix Zielcke, 2009/11/26
- Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed, Qianqian Fang, 2009/11/26
- Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed, Michal Suchanek, 2009/11/26
- Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed, Qianqian Fang, 2009/11/26
- Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed, Qianqian Fang, 2009/11/26
- Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed, Michal Suchanek, 2009/11/27
- Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed, Qianqian Fang, 2009/11/27
- Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed, Michal Suchanek, 2009/11/28