Whither fnt2bdf?

[Dan Kegel]

Huw Davies wrote:
>>>Does that mean Wine can natively handle .fnt fonts (which
>>>X libraries can't natively, I believe) as client side X fonts?
>>
>>My understanding is that FreeType can support bitmap fonts, but that
>>it's not implemented in Wine yet; Huw can give you the details. Anyway
>>most of the need for fnt2bdf was to convert the Windows standard
>>fonts, and these are basically all TrueType now.
> 
> Wine doesn't handle fnts quite yet.  However I've just added the
> necessary functions to FreeType to enable Wine to get hold of all the
> information it needs and hopefully I'll get time to finish the Wine
> side of things soon.

Woo-hoo!

>>I guess we could have a font control panel at some point, but there
>>isn't that much to manage anyway. As long as the font files are
>>somewhere on the font path everything should just work.
> 
> 
> Right.  We'll need to add support for using libfontconfig soon -
> that'll mean we don't have to set up a font path manually.

Yes!  libfontconfig support in Wine will be wonderful,
it'll mean that any fonts the user adds in the "control panel"
in Linux will automatically be available in Wine,
and possibly vice-versa (!).
- Dan


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