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diff --git a/TOOLS/subfont-c/README b/TOOLS/subfont-c/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b80eb900f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/TOOLS/subfont-c/README @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +About: +~~~~~~ +`subfont' program renders antialiased fonts for mplayer using freetype library. +Should work with TrueType, Type1 and any other font supported by libfreetype. + +Goals: + - internationalization: supports any 8 bit encoding (uses iconv). + - nice look: creates glyph `shadows' using algorithm derived from gaussian blur (slow!). + + +Note: +~~~~~ +Starting x position of each char and the bitmap width is aligned to multiple of 8 +(required for under-development MMX renderer). + + +Usage: +~~~~~~ +Usage: subfont encoding ppem font [alphaFactor [minAlpha [radius]]] + Program creates 3 files: font.desc, <encoding>-a.raw, <encoding>-b.raw. + You should append font.desc.tail (desc for OSD characters by a'rpi & chass) to font.desc, + and copy font.desc and all *.raw files to ~/.mplayer/font/ directory. + + encoding must be 8 bit encoding, like iso-8859-2. + To list encodings available on your system use iconv -l. + ppem Font size in pixels (e.g. 24). + font Font file path. Any format supported by freetype library (*.ttf, *.pf?, *). + alphaFactor Alpha map scaling factor (default is 1.0), float. + minAlpha Alpha map minimum value (default is 1.0, max is 255), float. + radius Alpha map blur radius (default is 6 pixels), integer. + + +Example: +~~~~~~~~ +make +./subfont iso-8859-2 20 verdana.ttf +cat font.desc.tail >> font.desc +cp font.desc *.raw ~/.mplayer/font/ + + +Author: +~~~~~~~ +Artur Zaprzala <zybi@fanthom.irc.pl> |