[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] dynamic font generation

[Felix Buenemann]

On Saturday 17 August 2002 10:41, Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 01:03:21PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > disadvantages:
> > > - displaying subtitles requires a bit stronger cpu
> > > - user needs to have .ttf files
> >
> > and it's even harder than before:
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm
> >
> > in short: M$ removed the free downloadable of ttf packs at august 12...
> > wonder why?
>
> Freetype can display Type1 fonts too. Actually, URW fonts from
> ghostscript look much better (NimbusSanL-Bold vs. Arial Bold) and are
> distributed under GPL. Maybe it would be nice to distribute one of them
> together with mplayer (30k file probably won't hurt) or even embed it
> with the OSD font in the binary as a default.
nice idea, are they really only 30k?

btw. it would be niced if OSD symbol (>,>> etc) would be scaled to same size 
as counter text to it's right and placed on the same baseline so it looks 
nicer.

-- 
Best Regards,
        Atmos
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