[ubuntu-art] On the art of creating usplash images

[Gossler Karoly]

Michiel Sikma írta:
 >
 > Op 30-mei-2006, om 10:49 heeft Gossler Karoly het volgende geschreven:
 >
 >> Hi,
 >>
 >>
 >>> P.S.: like I've talked about earlier, both here and in the
 >>> Ubuntu-devel list, I really think that we should replace the current
 >>> usplash BDF font with a new one. I already created one a while back
 >>> which was monospaced. It was too late to get one in for Dapper, but
 >>> is it possible to sneak in something like that in a Dapper update, or
 >>> would this be considered to be too big of a change; something an
 >>> update should not do?
 >>
 >> I should be glad if the new font will be an utf8 BDF font.
 >>
 >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LocalizedStartup
 >>
 >> I made this feature, but the utf isn't supported yet. :(
 >>
 >> --connor
 >>
 >>
 >
 > BDF fonts are pixel fonts, and it would take an unearthly amount of time
 > to make glyphs for all required characters. Maybe someone could make a
 > pixel dump of FreeSans at the same size as whatever font we will use for
 > usplash and then merge it with a manually remastered version of the most
 > used glyphs?

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fonts.tar.gz

Can you use this?


connor

ps: sorry. My previous msg goes to private.