[MPlayer-users] fonts in 0.90pre8-3.0.4 doesn't work

[Jindrich Makovicka]

gabor wrote:

>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 23:59, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
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>>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
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>>>>New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
>>>>Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
>>>>subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
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>>Will you provide a sample font in etc/ or onto download page, to avoid
>>user messages as :
>>My _xxx_ font doesnt work with mplayer because its broken, could you
>>help ?
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>i'm not a developer/maintainer of the project, but i don't think
>something like that will happen...
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>reasons:
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>-for the same reason that there's no mplayer skin in the package....
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>-an other problem would be to find a good-looking font with a license
>that permits its distribution...
>for example i mostly use arial, and you can freely download it from
>microsoft, but you can't redistribute it.
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Maybe some of the Ghostscript (URW) fonts. They have worse charset 
coverage but are GPL.

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>- ttf support is still experimental ( you have to enable it, it's
>disabled by default ) ... so if you know how to enable it, you should be
>able to get a ttf font
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The problem is rather with the binary packages, which already come with 
freetype enabled.

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>bye,
>gabor
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Jindrich Makovicka