new framebuffer fonts + updated 12x22 font available

new framebuffer fonts + updated 12x22 font available

[Jurriaan]

I've spent my offline-vacation on improving the fonts for use with the
framebuffer.

I've added all the characters marked 'FIXME' in the sun12x22 font and
created a 10x18 font (based on the sun12x22 font) and a 7x14 font (based
on the vga8x16 font).

The total patch is about 300 KiB, so I won't attach it here. 

As maintainership of the fonts is unknown to me, I'm posting this to
lkml, fb-devel, Andrew and some choice fb developers.

This patch is non-intrusive, no options are enabled by default so most
users won't notice a thing.

I am placing my changes under the GPL, however, I've not seen any
copyright notices on the sun12x22 font and the vga8x16 font which I
derived my new fonts from so I don't know what the copyright status is.

The patch is available at

http://www.xs4all.nl/~thunder7/fonts_7x14_10x18_12x22.diff

I would appreciate inclusion, of course, or constructive comments.

Thanks,
Jurriaan
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Re: new framebuffer fonts + updated 12x22 font available

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> I've spent my offline-vacation on improving the fonts for use with the
> framebuffer.
> 
> I've added all the characters marked 'FIXME' in the sun12x22 font and
> created a 10x18 font (based on the sun12x22 font) and a 7x14 font (based
> on the vga8x16 font).

Great! Is there any chance for bigger than 12x22 fonts? With some hi-res
panels in notebooks, even 12x22 looks pretty small...
				Pavel
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Re: Re: new framebuffer fonts + updated 12x22 font available

[Antonino A. Daplas]

On Tuesday 14 June 2005 03:59, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > I've spent my offline-vacation on improving the fonts for use with the
> > framebuffer.
> >
> > I've added all the characters marked 'FIXME' in the sun12x22 font and
> > created a 10x18 font (based on the sun12x22 font) and a 7x14 font (based
> > on the vga8x16 font).
>
> Great! Is there any chance for bigger than 12x22 fonts? With some hi-res
> panels in notebooks, even 12x22 looks pretty small...
> 				Pavel

You can try these (from Jani Jaakkola)

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/jjaakkol/psf/bitstream_vera_sans_mono_roman.16x30.psf
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/jjaakkol/psf/bitstream_vera_sans_mono_roman.17x32.psf

Tony




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