Re: Altering the font size

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 12/18/2010 10:22 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> When using higher resolutions in gfxterm, the default font is a bit
> small.  It looks like the default size grub-mkfont uses is 16, so I
> tried rebuilding my own larger version of unicode.pf2 with --size=32.
> It makes no difference.  The output file is not any larger and when
> grub loads it at boot time it looks exactly the same.  I also tried
> --size=64.  I used /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/unifont.pcf.gz as the
> grub wiki suggests for the source.
The only problem on GRUB side was ignoring errors from
FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes. The underlying problem is that freetype is unable to
scale bitmap fonts like unifont. You can either take the issue to
freetype devs or use TTF fonts (TTF font of unifont is available)
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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