[MPlayer-dev-eng] deprecating bitmap font support

[Attila Kinali]

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:41:28 +0200
Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> 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.

what about people using MPlayer on embedded systems?
For them bitmap fonts are smaller than using ttf's.

What is the reason to remove bitmap font support?
Does it hurt anyone?

			Attila Kinali
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