On 06/12/07 17:59, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
I'm considering compiling one font file directly into the program, so that, in case no external fonts can be found, it can at least run properly.
Can somebody suggest a freetype font that looks good, covers all necessary locales, and is really free, so that it can be redistributed with the VDR source?
What about falling back to the bitmap font vdr currently uses? It would only be able to display ASCII but that would be sufficient to at least start up vdr in english.
That was my first thought, too. But it would mean having an additional font mechanism that, in almost all cases, would never be used.
OTOH you can always puts("install true type fonts"); exit(1) :-)
If I can't compile in a freetype font, that's pretty much what it's going to be.
Klaus