From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Towheed Mohammed <towheedm@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: grub-mkfont generate errors when converting truetype fonts
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:50:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4465F3.3080502@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1329881776.85441.YahooMailNeo@web113509.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
On 22.02.2012 04:36, Towheed Mohammed wrote:
> But as you can see from the verbose output, because of these warnings, it produces only 95 glyphs as opposed to the expected 128.
The codepoint ranges 0-0x1f and 0x7f are controls and have no glyph. Do
you have the comparison of glyphs in questions? What glitches do you see?
> As for the quality, it is much lower than the fonts produced by earlier versions.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko<phcoder@gmail.com>
> To: grub-devel@gnu.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 11:23 PM
> Subject: Re: grub-mkfont generate errors when converting truetype fonts
>
> On 22.02.2012 03:17, Towheed Mohammed wrote:
>> Whenever you grub-mkfont is used to convert truetype fonts to PFF2 fonts, it generates several errors. For example:
>> grub-mkfont -v -s 12 -r 0x0-0x7F -o ~/Documents/dejavu-sans-12.pf2 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
>> gives the following error:
> It's not errors. Just warnings that the resulting pf2 will be of lesser quality than source TTF
>> This is a long-standing issue with grub-mkfont that started somewhere in the later releases of 1.98. This never occurred in earlier releaes of 1.98.
> The earlier versions just ignored the features altogether. Newer report them but it's *warnings*, not errors.
>
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-22 2:17 grub-mkfont generate errors when converting truetype fonts Towheed Mohammed
2012-02-22 3:23 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2012-02-22 3:36 ` Towheed Mohammed
2012-02-22 3:50 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
2012-02-23 1:32 ` Towheed Mohammed
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