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Re: Large console fonts for low-vision



Mario Lang, le Mon 06 Sep 2010 09:59:48 +0200, a écrit :
> Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> writes:
> 
> > Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Done.  I'm cloning this bug to keep the "console-setup should be able to
> >> select the font size according to SCREEN_WIDTH/HEIGHT" part.
> >
> > To what extent, if at all, would this help vision-impaired users who require
> > large fonts?
> 
> They should already be able to choose larger fonts.  For instance,
> the console-terminus package contains console fonts with a size
> up to 16x32.  Given a screen resolution of 1024x768, a 16x32 font
> would result in a console with 64 chars per line and 24 lines on the
> screen.

I was actually also wondering whether console-setup could rasterize a
truetype font on the fly to attain even bigger fonts.

Samuel


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