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From: Peter Flass
On 5/17/2011 8:13 AM, Alex Taylor wrote:
> On Mon, 16 May 2011 19:43:39 UTC, Marcel Müller
> wrote:
>
>>> Is there a form of the OS/2 screen fonts available for us in linux?
>>
>> No, and it would not be reasonable either. Note that the OS/2 bitmap
>> fonts are not Unicode aware and have only a limited character set.
>
> Even the standard SBCS OS/2 bitmap fonts support over 1000 characters -
> including Latin-1 and 2, DOS, MacOS and Windows symbols, Greek, Hebrew,
> Baltic and Eastern European, Arabic, Thai, and a few others. That's
> as much as most typical TrueType fonts, in fact... enough for almost
> all non-East-Asian text people are likely to need in day-to-day (i.e.
> user interface-style) use.
>
> And OS/2 actually does have a bitmap font format that supports Unicode,
> basically through a kind of binary directory that combines standard
> bitmap fonts together. I just don't know of any existing fonts that
> actually use this format...
>
> But that's going kind of off topic.
>
> To answer the original question: no, because OS/2 uses a file format
> for its screen (bitmap) fonts that no other operating system supports.
>
> The "standard" bitmap font format that Linux (well, FreeType) supports
> is BDF. However, you can also create a TrueType font with embedded
> bitmaps that get shown in place of rendered outlines at specific point
> sizes. I don't know of any examples of either that resemble System VIO,
> however...
>
It would seem it should be possible to convert them. After all, a
bitmap is a bitmap is a bitmap... In my previous life I had fun
converting IBM AFP bitmapped fonts to HP PCL bitmap fonts and visa-versa.
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