[MPlayer-dev-eng] deprecating bitmap font support

[Artur Zaprzała]

Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 12:45:34AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> The documentation has been updated.
> 
> Now what about
> 
>   TOOLS/subfont-gimp
>   TOOLS/subfont-c
> 
> I guess they can be removed as well, especially the mega-obsolete
> subfont-gimp...

You should leave TOOLS/subfont-c/osd, as it contains source code of osd.pfb 
font. This is the font that is stored in C format in libvo/osd_font.h.


Artur Zaprzala