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| author | Vincent Sanders <vince@netsurf-browser.org> | 2010-10-07 23:56:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Vincent Sanders <vince@netsurf-browser.org> | 2010-10-07 23:56:36 +0000 |
| commit | 84a0a629888215a3a4c4949e5116a6de333aaa34 (patch) | |
| tree | c1f2b9d74f33a6e89020e21f51e6511efad1c235 /Docs/BUILDING-Framebuffer | |
| parent | 409b3ef879729d80614098126a6808d9d5b46754 (diff) | |
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Clean up framebuffer compile time font selection
Make framebuffer font documentation match reality
Expose glyph cache size as a configuration option
svn path=/trunk/netsurf/; revision=10871
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diff --git a/Docs/BUILDING-Framebuffer b/Docs/BUILDING-Framebuffer index b6583df71..0eccca82e 100644 --- a/Docs/BUILDING-Framebuffer +++ b/Docs/BUILDING-Framebuffer @@ -79,26 +79,46 @@ The font glyphs are, by default, rendered as 256 level transparency which gives excellent visual results even on small font sizes. - The default font is the Vera trutype font set. The default path they - are sourced from is /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/ . + The default font is the DejaVu trutype font set. The default path they + are sourced from is /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/ . + + The compiled in default paths may be altered by setting values in + the user configuration makefile Makefile.config. These values must + be set to teh absolute path of the relevant font file including its + .ttf extension. The variables are: + + NETSURF_FB_FONT_SANS_SERIF + NETSURF_FB_FONT_SANS_SERIF_BOLD + NETSURF_FB_FONT_SANS_SERIF_ITALIC + NETSURF_FB_FONT_SANS_SERIF_ITALIC_BOLD + NETSURF_FB_FONT_SERIF + NETSURF_FB_FONT_SERIF_BOLD + NETSURF_FB_FONT_MONOSPACE + NETSURF_FB_FONT_MONOSPACE_BOLD + NETSURF_FB_FONT_CURSIVE + NETSURF_FB_FONT_FANTASY + The font selection may be changed by placing truetype font files in the resources path. The resource files will be the generic names - sans_serif.ttf, sans_serif_bold.ttf etc. The selection may also be - overridden by setting options. + sans_serif.ttf, sans_serif_bold.ttf etc. The font system is configured at runtime by several options. The fb_font_monochrome option causes the renderer to use monochrome glyph rendering which is faster to plot but slower to render and - much less visually appealing. The remaining seven options control - the files to be used for font faces. + much less visually appealing. + + The remaining seven options control the files to be used for font faces. fb_face_sans_serif - The sans serif face fb_face_sans_serif_bold - The bold sans serif face fb_face_sans_serif_italic - The italic sans serif face fb_face_sans_serif_italic_bold - The bold italic sans serif face. - fb_face_monospace - The monospaced font fb_face_serif - The serif font fb_serif_bold - The bold serif font + fb_face_monospace - The monospaced font + fb_face_monospace_bold - The bold monospaced font + fb_face_cursive - The cursive font + fb_face_fantasy - The fantasy font Old Freetype -------------- |