Altering the font size

Altering the font size

[Phillip Susi]

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.

Re: Altering the font size

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

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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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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko



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Re: Altering the font size

[Phillip Susi]

On 12/18/2010 04:52 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> 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)

That makes sense.  I tried using a ttf: 
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu-R.tff and get a 
bunch of unknown gsub feature errors for sups, tnum, ss01, sinf, salt, 
pnum, ordn, numr, frac, locl, dnom, case, and calt fetures.

Re: Altering the font size

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

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On 12/19/2010 06:21 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 12/18/2010 04:52 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>> 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)
>
> That makes sense.  I tried using a ttf:
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu-R.tff and get a
> bunch of unknown gsub feature errors for sups, tnum, ss01, sinf, salt,
> pnum, ordn, numr, frac, locl, dnom, case, and calt fetures.
>
They are warnings, not errors


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko



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