[Bug 732854] Re: Wishlist: Use Ubuntu font for pre-installer gfxboot menus

[林博仁]

** Changed in: gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
       Status: Expired => New

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Title:
  Wishlist: Use Ubuntu font for pre-installer gfxboot menus

Status in Ubuntu Font Family:
  Incomplete
Status in “gfxboot-theme-ubuntu” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Gfxboot displays the menus shown at the first step of the installer
  CD.  The font currently used is the 8x16 GNU unifont with space
  removal to use it as a proportionally spaced font.   The final result
  is a unicode bitmap called '16x16.fnt' in the format which gfxboot
  expects to read.  Since this is proportional and flexible than the
  other other bitmap console environments, we can use the fonts that are
  already available.

  In the 'gfxboot-theme-ubuntu' source code 'Makefile', the recipe I've
  been testing is:

  font 16x16.fnt 16x16.fnt.log: keytables.inc install/log boot/log langlist langnames.inc
          @if [ -z "$(DI_PATH)" ]; then echo "Please set DI_PATH to an unpacked debian-installer source tree" >&2; exit 1; fi
          cat po/*.po >tmp.txt
          cat $(DI_PATH)/build/boot/x86/po/*.po >>tmp.txt
          gfxboot-font -v -v -v -v -H 16 -l 18 -p "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/:/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" \
          -c ISO-8859-15 -c ISO-8859-2 -c koi8-r \
          `$(KEYMAPCHARS) keytables.inc` \
          -t tmp.txt \
          -t install/log -t boot/log \
          -t langlist -t langnames.inc \
          -f Ubuntu-R:space_width=4:size=14:autohint=0 \
          -f unifont:prop=2:space_width=4 \
          16x16.fnt >16x16.fnt.log
          rm -f tmp.txt

  The output can then be visually explored using 'less 16x16.fnt.log'.
  The font is data-only and is also built manually rather than as part
  of the package build process.  'gfxboot-font' was previously called
  'mkblfont' in versions of Ubuntu up until Lucid.  The 'gfxboot-font'
  program can be found in the 'gfxboot-dev' package.

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