Alexandre Julliard wrote:
Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com writes:
Does that mean Wine can natively handle .fnt fonts (which X libraries can't natively, I believe) as client side X fonts?
My understanding is that FreeType can support bitmap fonts, but that it's not implemented in Wine yet; Huw can give you the details. Anyway most of the need for fnt2bdf was to convert the Windows standard fonts, and these are basically all TrueType now.
I wonder whether people still want to run applications that are packaged with their own Windows bitmap fonts. I think I run into that periodically. It would be interesting to work out how to support those properly under Wine, even though they're obsolete.
I suppose Wine would need some user-space app to manage these fonts, then?
I guess we could have a font control panel at some point, but there isn't that much to manage anyway. As long as the font files are somewhere on the font path everything should just work.
Since the average user can't deal with font paths, this little font control panel will be important. Maybe even required for wine1.0, who knows. - Dan