Re: fonts for gfxmenu, help needed

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:43:30PM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko 
wrote:
> I identified number of fonts as one of the reason of gfxmenu needing
> important amount of time to load. I prefer to have few nice looking free
> fonts with reasonable unicode coverage (we'll need it because of
> gettext) and load only ones really needed
> [...]
> > I think that true bitmap fonts will look much, much better than
> > converted outline fonts, but perhaps if we added an 8-bit alpha channel
> > to the font format and grub-mkfont could do anti-aliasing during the
> > conversion process; then I think we could make use of all the free
> > outline fonts
> I'm ok wth doing any kind of preprocessing in grub-mkfont but grub2 has
> to remain simple in order to ensure reasonable performance even on slow
> system (curren't it's not the case and more work is needed for
> optimising it)

I understand there's a lot of room for improvement, but it'd be interesting to
start providing a basic set of fonts so that we get the ball rolling and
theme authors can beging doing their artist work.

Has someone obtained a working multi-size setup with grub-mkfont + unifont?
Currently I just know that the default ascii.pf2 works (but doesn't have any
single-size theme that would play well with it).

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