Hi Keith! On 28 Feb 05 at 22:02, "Keith" (Keith Packard) wrote: Keith> --==_Exmh_41322760P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Keith> Around 21 o'clock on Feb 28, Dmitry Karasik wrote: >> Please don't, at least for iso-8859-1 and iso-10646-1 encodings. I see >> where the new font layout would shine brighter, but probably it's >> better to not fix what ain't broken? Keith> For 10646, PCF is a really bad idea -- it uses an uncompressed Keith> array for the codepoint->glyph mapping table, which means you Keith> cannot spread glyphs across the unicode range without exploding Keith> file sizes. Keith> Even for Latin-1, using TTF is a win as we can ship all of the Keith> bitmap sizes in a single file, saving significant space and effort. Wait, when you used word 'eliminate' in the previous message does that mean that PCF/BDF fonts simply wouldn't be shipped in the future, or, in the contrary, wouldn't be recognized any longer? I thought that it is the latter, because I've had at least one problem with newer fontconfig, when it displayed first 128 glyphs only out of my non-latin PCF files. If it is just about shipping, well, the request is cancelled. -- Sincerely, Dmitry Karasik
