Closed Bug 439190 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

add support for OS/2 bitmap fonts

Categories

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Graphics
Platform:
x86
OS/2
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: stevew, Unassigned)

References

Details

The OS/2 port of FontConfig handles TrueType and Type 1 fonts nicely, but it does not handle OS/2 bitmap fonts like WarpSans, Helv, and Tms Rmn. It would be nice if these were supported, since they were default fonts in pre-1.9 versions.
I acknowledge the problem and have been openly stating this (and asked for help) for the last year, but as this is not a problem in the Mozilla code, this is invalid here.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
To be clear, a fix would have to come from where? Thebes? Cairo? Pango? Freetype? GCC? IBM?
OS/2-specific font formats (fonts embedded in DLLs and contained in .fon files) and would need to be supported first in FreeType, then we can add it in our FontConfig port at which point these fonts would be available to Mozilla apps.
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