[MPlayer-dev-eng] deprecating bitmap font support

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 11 September 2006 at 18:55, fab wrote:
> On 11/09/06 17:40 +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > 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 :-)
> > 
> 
> Isn't it possible to provide one (hardcoded or installed somewhere) by
> default ? The are plenty good and free fonts.

If fontconfig support is built in, it's enough to specify
fontconfig=yes
font="Nimbus Sans L"
in the config file. That font should be present on most distros, as it
is part of urw-fonts. If not, maybe we can ship that font (it's small
and free).

Regards,
R.

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