Re: [ft] Creating an [OT]TF font from BDF font

[Keith Packard]

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 15:18 +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > It's not terribly useful for fontconfig or libXft, where it is useful is
> > in converting sfnt back into BDF files in case you want to take a font
> > and use it with old non-TTF supporting X servers.
> 
> Well, that you already can do, using fstobdf (it's still in the tree,
> right?).  Now, if there are clients that still make use of ad hoc font
> properties, they should be shot.

Right, we can easily generate a BDF file, but without some place to
store the properties that only BDF exposes in the TTF file, we'll lose
some data. It's probably not terribly important data, but I think saving
all of it is a prerequisite for switching from BDF to SFNT files as the
canonical delivery and archival mechanism.

-keith

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