- From: Norbert Nemec <address@hidden>
- To: <address@hidden>
- Subject: Addtional remark: Fontconfig (was: Type 3 fonts)
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:09:32 +0200
Hi there,
just found out about
http://fontconfig.org - the portable solution for Linux
systems. Of course - like any real solution - quite complex...
No idea about Windows, though.
Ciao,
Nobbi
Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2003 16:54 schrieb Norbert Nemec:
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Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2003 15:23 schrieb Joris van der Hoeven:
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> > Under Linux .ttf is becoming more and more common. Quite a number of
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> > quality scalable fonts are distributed freely. (e.g. the Vera font
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> > family, recently donated by Bitstream to te open source community)
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> OK; so I got at least one .ttf font working. Does there exist a standard
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> way in order to find the True Type fonts which are installed on the hard
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> disk, together with their properties (bold, italic, etc.)?
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>
Certainly nothing portable. Even under Linux, every distribution has their
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own system for managing fonts (e.g. defoma under Debian). Windows and MacOS
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certainly have something completely different.
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Simplest suggestion: provide a configurable setting for the font-path. Any
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system usually just has a certain set of directories where ttfs are stored.
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Packagers may preconfigure that setting for their system. The user may add
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additional paths.
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To determine the properties, you'll probably have to scan the files
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individually and sort them by families. (Freetype does provide everything
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for that.) A simple cache might speed this up. No idea whether that's worth
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the effort.
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Leave the whole configuration system to a minimum, so anyone with more
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expertise may enhance it lateron. Don't try to invent any perfect solution
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for the font configuration problem. There have been too many people
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spending time on that already without coming up with a real solution...
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>
Ciao,
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Nobbi
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