Re: grub-mkfont generate errors when converting truetype fonts

[Towheed Mohammed]

Eliminating the codepoints produces 95 glyphs as expected.  Just that earlier 
versions produced 128 glyphs for 0x0-0x7f.

After some extensive testing today, the problem may be with some distros ttf 
fonts.

----- Original Message -----
From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <address@hidden>
Cc: Towheed Mohammed <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 11:50 PM
Subject: Re: grub-mkfont generate errors when converting truetype fonts

On 22.02.2012 04:36, Towheed Mohammed wrote:
> But as you can see from the verbose output, because of these warnings, it 
> produces only 95 glyphs as opposed to the expected 128.
The codepoint ranges 0-0x1f and 0x7f are controls and have no glyph. Do 
you have the comparison of glyphs in questions? What glitches do you see?
>    As for the quality, it is much lower than the fonts produced by earlier 
>versions.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko<address@hidden>
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 11:23 PM
> Subject: Re: grub-mkfont generate errors when converting truetype fonts
>
> On 22.02.2012 03:17, Towheed Mohammed wrote:
>> Whenever you grub-mkfont is used to convert truetype fonts to PFF2 fonts, it 
>> generates several errors.  For example:
>> grub-mkfont -v -s 12 -r 0x0-0x7F -o ~/Documents/dejavu-sans-12.pf2 
>> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
>> gives the following error:
> It's not errors. Just warnings that the resulting pf2 will be of lesser 
> quality than source TTF
>> This is a long-standing issue with grub-mkfont that started somewhere in the 
>> later releases of 1.98.  This never occurred in earlier releaes of 1.98.
> The earlier versions just ignored the features altogether. Newer report them 
> but it's *warnings*, not errors.
>
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