commit 3b01b7183b0f55ffe58647cb875213783f87e010
parent 66cb8abf39c8357859254dd388e7c370bb891272
Author: Frederic Cambus <fred@statdns.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 18:52:46 +0100
Update README: improve description, and add a packages section.
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1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ fonts. It works by converting each pixel of a glyph to a polygon, which
produces large and unoptimized SFD files that should be post-processed
using [FontForge][3].
+There are several reasons why it might be desirable to convert bitmap
+fonts to OpenType or TrueType versions. This allow for example to use them
+as Web fonts, or simply to keep using them in some terminal emulators,
+since Pango 1.44 dropped support for bitmap fonts.
+
It was originally created to generate OpenType versions of [Spleen][4], and
is released in the hope it can be useful to convert other fonts as well.
Please be aware that it works best on fonts proportional to 8x16. Other
@@ -24,6 +29,12 @@ dependencies.
bdf2sfd has been successfully built and tested on OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
and Linux with both Clang and GCC.
+## Packages
+
+Packages are available for the following operating systems:
+
+- [OpenBSD][5]
+
## Usage
bdf2sfd [-hv] [-f name] file
@@ -84,3 +95,4 @@ GitHub: https://github.com/fcambus/bdf2sfd
[2]: https://fontforge.org/en-US/documentation/developers/sfdformat/
[3]: https://fontforge.org
[4]: https://github.com/fcambus/spleen
+[5]: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/converters/bdf2sfd
