Bugzilla – Bug 2097
Request for narrow width "full" font
Last modified: 2009-01-30 22:39:52 UTC
Is there any chance of getting a "full" font that is narrower included? I made one by copying and scrunching the regular full font bitmap and it works, but it's not very pretty.
perhaps some polite requests to the author of this tool: http://mylefteye.com/sbgfonts/ might persuade him to release a version that creates the higher res fonts for squeezebox2
This is a good idea, but won't make it for 6.2. Sue: check out those fonts and add your thoughts about one you'd like to see.
It's hard to say until you see it on the screen from across the room, but here are some from my font collection that I thought could work: Abadi MT Condensed Arial Narrow Myriad Web Pro Condensed Futura Medium Condensed Humanist 521 Condensed BT News Gothic Condensed BT Xerox Sans Serif Narrow Also, here's the reply from Bob about updating the TTtfToSbg program: > I've rewritten the convertor, and it now generates anti-aliased 2bpp > BMP files for the SB2. But slim still hasn't gotten around to updating > the software to use anything other than monochrome (1bpp) bitmaps. > They're more focused on important functionality right now, no > complaints here... > > I actually did patch up the old convertor to make monochrome > bitmaps for sb2, but somewhere along the line, the output files > stopped working with slimserver -- I just tried the latest nightly, > and they crash it hard (even though they look perfectly fine in > a bitmap paint editor). I'll try to fix it up again if I get a rainy day > or two... and will let you know as soon as I do. Thanks for considering.
Fonts are generated by slimserver.
Will look at the next release.
There is a version of TTtfToSbg for SB2 now.
This can be closed.