I'm closing this bug since fonts-ubuntu-font-family-console exists in
all supported Ubuntu releases.
** Changed in: ubuntu-font-family-sources (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
** Changed in: ubuntu-font-family
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/724022
Title:
[21 new] Allow use of Ubuntu Mono as .psf console-setup font
Status in Ubuntu Font Family:
Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-font-family-sources package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
The text-mode console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) currently uses the default
system/VGA font but a hinted version of Ubuntu Mono would be lovely to
have loadable on the Linux console when it's finished.
Converting a TTF so that it is usable as bitmap Linux console font
appears to be a two-stage process; first rasterising to a BFD bitmap
font file (bitmap with metrics), and then from that into a rawform,
equal width PSF bitmap console font:
otf2bdf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/UbuntuBetaMono-R-R21.ttf >
UbuntuBetaMono-R-R21.bdf
bdf2psf UbuntuBetaMono-R-R21.bdf /usr/share/bdf2psf/standard.equivalents
/usr/share/bdf2psf/required.set+/usr/share/bdf2psf/useful.set 256
UbuntuBetaMono-R-R21.psf
setfont -h17 UbuntuBetaMono-R-R21.psf
The R21 Mono Beta has a cell bounding box of 482×1000 (including
necessary leading and advance); this leads to bounding box of 8x17
rather than the traditional 8x16 and this is what the "-n17" forces
upon loading. The result useful but very ugly because of the lack of
manual hinting.
We probably also want to make sure that at least all of the codepoints listed
in the 'required.set' file are present and populated if we're going to replace
the current default.
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Eventually (11.10?) we should try to apply the Ubuntu fonts to the console as
well. Steps 12–14 are blocked waiting for the Ubuntu Monospace to be released
and available in the archive.
11) gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (Proportional) - bug #732854
12) Bterm (d-i) (Monospace) -
13) Grub2 (Monospace) - bug #729470
14) Console-setup (Monospace) - bug #724022 (this bug)
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