Re: [Devel] Bitmap font file reading progress

[Keith Packard]

> 1- Use the xc/lib/font/bitmap code of XFree86.

You should be able to take this code and plug the existing FreeType streams
drivers underneath.  This code may well be the only definitive way of 
learning what PCF format is like; I don't recall writing any documentation 
that described the current PCF format.  The original Digital spec was a 
bit broken.

For PCF, it may be just as easy to steal the (trivial) reader and plug it 
into your own framework though.

I'd recommend using Mark's BDF reader instead of the X one; support for
vertical writing would be nice and X's reader will never need it.

Besides, I'm hoping to *never execute that code again*...

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