Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed

["Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>]

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Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 2009/11/24 Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>:
>   
>> 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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