[MPlayer-dev-eng] deprecating bitmap font support

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 05:40:37PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> 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 :-)

Sure, the idea is to make the change gradually, starting by updating the
documentation.

OK, since everybody seems to be in favor of this I'll start going over
the documentation in the next few days.

Diego