Re: freetype can't read gzipped fonts
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 02:46:59PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> XB> I'm trying to use some bitmapped fonts with Xft, but they're all
> XB> packaged as .bdf.gz or .pcf.gz, and freetype can't read that.
>
> Correct.
>
> XB> I could manually gunzip all my font directories, but then next upgrade
> XB> will mess it up.
>
> Correct. There are three people in the world who understand the
> ``hold'' feature of dpkg, but nobody is quite sure who they are.
>
> XB> Either X fonts packages should ship gunzipped fonts, or freetype should
> XB> s/open/gzopen/g ...
>
> The latter is difficult -- FreeType thinks it can seek around font
> files. The former is not advised, as uncompressed PCF are *huge*.
dictd uses seekable gzipped files for its dataases, afaik.
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