[MPlayer-dev-eng] deprecating bitmap font support

[fab]

On 11/09/06 17:40 +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 12:41:28PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > I think it's time to deprecate the bitmap font support and move to
> > FreeType.  We can start by removing the font download links from the
> > homepage and update the documentation to tell people to use TrueType
> > fonts instead.  Eventually we could turn off bitmap font support by
> > default.
> > 
> > Opinions?
> 
> Agree, though switching from bitmap to ttf fonts means for many people
> that they will (beides adding a subfont.ttf) have to add subcp=... to their config file.
> Would be good if they had a way to find out without asking on -users :-)
> 

Isn't it possible to provide one (hardcoded or installed somewhere) by
default ? The are plenty good and free fonts.

Regards.
fab.