From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1S03Dl-0002P0-Sd for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:50:25 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38396) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S03Di-0002Ot-U5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:50:24 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S03Df-0006YR-Ll for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:50:22 -0500 Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:53841) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S03Df-0006Y7-8b for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:50:19 -0500 Received: by eaag11 with SMTP id g11so2999068eaa.0 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:50:18 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of phcoder@gmail.com designates 10.213.28.133 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.213.28.133; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of phcoder@gmail.com designates 10.213.28.133 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=phcoder@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=phcoder@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.213.28.133]) by 10.213.28.133 with SMTP id m5mr4422338ebc.62.1329882618211 (num_hops = 1); Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:50:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=/KGdKoq+I1IHtmQKDKVLO5W0gSSFa7C5Q8Isg/po6AU=; b=QLGTW9stdeQGP7c5l5o4Koovo4H6AM/9N8y9hMv7YpBeUeBNPic7o0cOHNo8Bksonv OhTW25tfRBSOZ8TviFUYXv4+qbXCz7rjj5TWTwGaNVG1c4IVtvnVdyu0QCJRr0C/2/u2 p33KDBF/cfzd5rToWR3VoGvczj4hD8vz2is7k= Received: by 10.213.28.133 with SMTP id m5mr3531841ebc.62.1329882616201; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:50:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from debian.x201.phnet (93-234.197-178.cust.bluewin.ch. [178.197.234.93]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n56sm97689848eeh.6.2012.02.21.19.50.14 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:50:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F4465F3.3080502@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:50:11 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20120216 Icedove/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: grub-mkfont generate errors when converting truetype fonts References: <1329877070.93805.YahooMailNeo@web113507.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <4F445FBD.3020109@gmail.com> <1329881776.85441.YahooMailNeo@web113509.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1329881776.85441.YahooMailNeo@web113509.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.215.169 Cc: Towheed Mohammed X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:50:25 -0000 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 > 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. > > > -- Regards > Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko