Fonts: Pango Drops Bitmap Support.

[Adam Jackson]

On Mon, 2019-07-29 at 14:36 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:

> Is there any chance X.org can ship their super collection of fonts as
> OpenType bitmaps as well?  I understand it's a mechanical conversion.
> That would allow distro packagers to make them readily available to
> users alongside the existing BDFs, etc., so they can continue to use
> their decade-old favourites.

Do you have a link to a recipe for such mechanical conversion? I think
we would still preserve the BDF as the "source" format but I'd
certainly be happy to install them as something other than PCF. (For
that matter I might like to ship my OS without PCF support in the
renderer at all.)

- ajax