Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 2009/11/25 Robert Millan <address@hidden>:
>   
>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:43:30PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' 
>> Serbinenko wrote:
>>     
>>> I identified number of fonts as one of the reason of gfxmenu needing
>>> important amount of time to load. I prefer to have few nice looking free
>>> fonts with reasonable unicode coverage (we'll need it because of
>>> gettext) and load only ones really needed
>>> [...]
>>>       
>>>> I think that true bitmap fonts will look much, much better than
>>>> converted outline fonts, but perhaps if we added an 8-bit alpha channel
>>>> to the font format and grub-mkfont could do anti-aliasing during the
>>>> conversion process; then I think we could make use of all the free
>>>> outline fonts
>>>>         
>>> I'm ok wth doing any kind of preprocessing in grub-mkfont but grub2 has
>>> to remain simple in order to ensure reasonable performance even on slow
>>> system (curren't it's not the case and more work is needed for
>>> optimising it)
>>>       
>> I understand there's a lot of room for improvement, but it'd be interesting 
>> to
>> start providing a basic set of fonts so that we get the ball rolling and
>> theme authors can beging doing their artist work.
>>
>> Has someone obtained a working multi-size setup with grub-mkfont + unifont?
>> Currently I just know that the default ascii.pf2 works (but doesn't have any
>> single-size theme that would play well with it).
>>
>>     
>
> Does grub-mkfont support writing .pf2 files from any font?
>
> IIRC there was a glyph searching optimization committed into Grub
> which uses binary search instead of linear search.
> This requires either that font glyphs are sorted by Unicode codepoint
> (which they supposedly are in unifont) or that grub-mkfont sorts them
> while creating the .pf2 file.
>
>   
grub-mkfont should sort ranges, it's clearly a bug. Patch to fix
grub-mkfont is welcome (you can use qsort to sort them)
> Thanks
>
> Michal
>
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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