Re: [Devel] FreeType2 BDF driver

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I have completed a working version of the BDF driver for FreeType2.
> Shortly, it is a wrapper around Mark Leisher's BDF library.

Excellent!

> There still is some code cleanup to be done (next weekend).  Before
> that, I can quite easily add drivers for the following bitmap font
> formats:
> 
> - HBF fonts
> - Sun VFONT fonts
> - Linux PSF fonts
> - DOS [EV]GA fonts      (loads all three sizes if they are present)
> - Metafont PK/GF fonts 
> - Windows FON/FNT fonts (this was taken from Wine, the same as
>                          Freetype and is probably not needed)

The more, the better!  Maybe you can add support for Vector FNT format
to the existing driver?

> Do you think any of them is useful?

Yes, definitely.  Developers can easily disable drivers if they want
to.


    Werner