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From: Bean <bean123ch@gmail.com>
To: "The development of GRUB 2" <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] GSoC #10 new font engine (UTF-8 support+bugfix)
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:52:51 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ca0f59980901022052p76be272dgb21b49f441faa332@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <495E9BF2.8070003@nic.fi>

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Vesa Jääskeläinen <chaac@nic.fi> wrote:
> Jerone Young wrote:
>> I just paid attention to this (sorry). So everything seems fine. But the
>> dependency on  a proprietary java stack  to generate fonts isn't good. Does
>> it happen to work with gcc java ?
>
> Paying attention is not a bad thing as such :)
>
> Never tried it myself but it should work. There isn't anything special
> on it. As long as Java 1.5 is being supported.
>
> Anyway... idea was to get rid of it as soon as possible. I just didn't
> feel right to hold features because of this.

Hi,

I think we can use freetype2 library. It supports both bitmap and
outline fonts, and we don't need to parse font file ourselves. BTW,
where can I find document on the new font format ?

-- 
Bean



  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-03  4:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-01 16:27 [PATCH] GSoC #10 new font engine Colin D Bennett
2008-10-05  4:46 ` [PATCH] GSoC #10 new font engine (vs r1885) Colin D Bennett
2008-10-05  8:50   ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-10-30 19:11     ` [PATCH] GSoC #10 new font engine (UTF-8 support) Colin D Bennett
2008-10-31  3:57       ` [PATCH] GSoC #10 new font engine (UTF-8 support+bugfix) Colin D Bennett
2008-10-31 18:31         ` Matt Sturgeon
2008-10-31 19:50           ` Colin D Bennett
2008-11-04 20:19             ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-11-04 20:31               ` Robert Millan
2008-11-04 20:52                 ` Colin D Bennett
2008-12-06 20:18         ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-12-22 17:14           ` Colin D Bennett
2008-12-23 18:39             ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-12-24  1:17               ` Colin D Bennett
2008-12-28  0:34                 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-12-28  0:35                   ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2009-01-02 15:26                     ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-12-28  8:44                   ` Arthur Marsh
2009-01-02 22:44                   ` Jerone Young
2009-01-02 22:57                     ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2009-01-03  4:52                       ` Bean [this message]
2009-01-03  7:30                         ` Colin D Bennett
2009-01-03 16:45                     ` Colin D Bennett
2009-01-03 16:54                       ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2009-01-05  5:05                       ` Jerone Young
2009-01-05  7:59                         ` Colin D Bennett
2009-01-05 13:29                           ` Jerone Young

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