2010-06-16 21:08:17 UTC
There is an issue with terminus (and bitmap fonts in general) in recent Ubuntu. The issue is of both technical and personal nature. Technical part is that old formats of bitmap fonts are difficult to maintain, so pango developers decided to drop them. Bitmap fonts are disabled by default on Kali, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and more. To fix this enter the following commands: cd /etc/fonts/conf.d/ sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/10. sudo rm -rf 70-no-bitmaps.conf sudo ln -s./conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf. Sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig.
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I need to convert some Microsoft TTF TrueType fonts to bitmapped
fonts, to generate several fonts of differing size.
I had some success with utility ttf2bdf from Freetype1 library. (and
subsequent use of bdftopcf).
However, ttf2bdf is buggy and cannot convert, say, COUR.ttf (Corier
New font). It chokes on it and produces a file without any characters
defined.
Freetype1 is no longer supported, so I am looking for an alternative.
Freetype2 seems to only be a library.
So, I want to find some tool to convert TTF fonts to bitmapped Unix
fonts (PCF).
Some may ask, why bitmapped? The answer is that there is some third
party library that needs them.
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fonts, to generate several fonts of differing size.
I had some success with utility ttf2bdf from Freetype1 library. (and
subsequent use of bdftopcf).
However, ttf2bdf is buggy and cannot convert, say, COUR.ttf (Corier
New font). It chokes on it and produces a file without any characters
defined.
Freetype1 is no longer supported, so I am looking for an alternative.
Freetype2 seems to only be a library.
So, I want to find some tool to convert TTF fonts to bitmapped Unix
fonts (PCF).
Some may ask, why bitmapped? The answer is that there is some third
party library that needs them.
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