Re: [Devel] ftview and gray4 support

[George Williams]

On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 15:17, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> The BDF driver supports different gray levels for glyphs (2, 4, and 8
> bpp) but it always returns an 8bpp glyph.
> 
> The TrueType driver also supports 2, 4, and 8bpp but it doesn't do the
> conversion to 8bpp.
> 
> This is inconsistent.  I would like to move the 2->8bpp and 4->8bpp
> code from the BDF driver to the ftview demo program.
I think it might be useful to provide a little utility routine to do the
n->8 bit conversion (in the library).
Probably best if the library returned what was there, as you suggest.

But the X people must use this code the most -- their vote is more
important than mine