Re: [pygame] freetype + unusual font format: What am I doing wrong?

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've added a note to Pygame issue #75 to add a Font.get_sizes() method 
to list available sizes for a bitmap font.

Lenard Lindstrom

On 13-10-08 06:42 PM, Jason Marshall wrote:
> Thanks for digging into this. If multiplying the em width by 2 // 3 is 
> the most difficult step in using a bitmap font with pygame, then I'm 
> happy!
>
> Jason
>
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> *From:* Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 8, 2013 12:32 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [pygame] freetype + unusual font format: What am I 
> doing wrong?
>
> I looked at the BDF code in freetype2, and then ran a debugger on
> pygame.freetype to confirm. In freetype2, when only a "SIZE" record in a
> BDF file, the width, in pixels-per-em, is calculated as (height * 2 / 3)
> [1], which may not be the point size given in the "SIZE" record. For
> c64.dbf this is (8 * 2 / 3) = 5. The width is used as the font size.
> This is a quirk of the freetype library. I see no easy work-around.
>
> Lenard Lindstrom
>
> [1] bdfdrivr.c:438, see
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/src/bdf/bdfdrivr.c?id=VER-2-5-0-1#n438