[mythtv-users] OSD Font?

[Curtis Stanford]

I'm not sure exactly either but the fontconfig package API is supposed to make 
this really easy.

On October 24, 2003 08:21 pm, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> > > Cool, thanks man. Is there any reason it can't use the fonts
> > > available in X like the rest of the GUI?
> >
> > I probably don't know what I'm talking about, but that's never stopped
> > me before... I believe the reason is that the OSD is not an X
> > primitive, but instead is a rendered image that is multiplexed into the
> > video output stream; hence it's not so simple to use X's font rendering
> > mechanism.
>
> It would be possible to give Myth a directory full of ttf fonts
> and list those for use, but I don't know enough about freetype and X to
> know whether there's a way to list and use any ttf font that's available
> to the X server.
>
> Patches welcome... :)