[MPlayer-dev-eng] deprecating bitmap font support

[Chris Zubrzycki]

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On Sep 12, 2006, at 5:05 AM, Diego Biurrun wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:51:00AM +0200, Chris Roccati wrote:
>>
>> On 11 Sep 2006, at 12:41 , 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?
>>
>> This will create a dependence on an external and optional library
>> under MacOS X (and most likely under Win32 too).
>
> Well, (correct me if I'm wrong) isn't FreeType available on almost all
> platforms, including Mac OS X and Windows?

Yes, it is installed with the X11 package, which is part of the  
default os x install. The headers are in the X11 sdk package, which  
is not, but any user building packages should be competent enough to  
install the X11 sdk.

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