[MPlayer-dev-eng] deprecating bitmap font support

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 12:41:28PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> I think it's time to deprecate the bitmap font support and move to
> FreeType.  We can start by removing the font download links from the
> homepage and update the documentation to tell people to use TrueType
> fonts instead.  Eventually we could turn off bitmap font support by
> default.
> 
> Opinions?

Agree, though switching from bitmap to ttf fonts means for many people
that they will (beides adding a subfont.ttf) have to add subcp=... to their config file.
Would be good if they had a way to find out without asking on -users :-)

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger