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|Short description=A library for configuring and customizing font access. | |Short description=A library for configuring and customizing font access. | ||
| − | |Full description=[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontconfig | + | |Full description=[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontconfig fontconfig] is a library for customizing and configuring fonts in a system, providing configuration, enumeration and substitution of fonts to other programs. |
Applications can use fontconfig in two ways: | Applications can use fontconfig in two ways: | ||
| − | + | * by querying it for the available fonts on the system, or | |
| − | + | * by querying it for a font matching certain parameters (comprising a pattern) as closely as possible. | |
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To perform font matching, fontconfig stores typesetting information about all of the installed fonts, including the name of the font family, style, weight, dots per inch (DPI), and Unicode coverage. This information is also used to perform font substitution. | To perform font matching, fontconfig stores typesetting information about all of the installed fonts, including the name of the font family, style, weight, dots per inch (DPI), and Unicode coverage. This information is also used to perform font substitution. | ||
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fontconfig can: | fontconfig can: | ||
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* discover new fonts when installed automatically, removing a common source of configuration problems. | * discover new fonts when installed automatically, removing a common source of configuration problems. | ||
* perform font name substitution, so that appropriate alternative fonts can be selected if fonts are missing. | * perform font name substitution, so that appropriate alternative fonts can be selected if fonts are missing. | ||
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fontconfig does not: | fontconfig does not: | ||
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* render the fonts themselves (this is left to FreeType or other rendering mechanisms) | * render the fonts themselves (this is left to FreeType or other rendering mechanisms) | ||
* depend on the X Window System in any fashion, so that printer only applications do not have such dependencies | * depend on the X Window System in any fashion, so that printer only applications do not have such dependencies | ||
Latest revision as of 14:26, 6 August 2021
fontconfig
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig/
A library for configuring and customizing font access.
fontconfig is a library for customizing and configuring fonts in a system, providing configuration, enumeration and substitution of fonts to other programs.
Applications can use fontconfig in two ways:
- by querying it for the available fonts on the system, or
- by querying it for a font matching certain parameters (comprising a pattern) as closely as possible.
To perform font matching, fontconfig stores typesetting information about all of the installed fonts, including the name of the font family, style, weight, dots per inch (DPI), and Unicode coverage. This information is also used to perform font substitution.
Features
fontconfig can:
- discover new fonts when installed automatically, removing a common source of configuration problems.
- perform font name substitution, so that appropriate alternative fonts can be selected if fonts are missing.
- identify the set of fonts required to completely cover a set of languages.
- have GUI configuration tools built as it uses an XML-based configuration file (though with autodiscovery, we believe this need is minimized).
- efficiently and quickly find the fonts you need among the set of fonts you have installed, even if you have installed thousands of fonts, while minimizing memory usage.
- be used in concert with the X Render Extension and FreeType to implement high quality, anti-aliased and subpixel rendered text on a display.
fontconfig does not:
- render the fonts themselves (this is left to FreeType or other rendering mechanisms)
- depend on the X Window System in any fashion, so that printer only applications do not have such dependencies
Documentation
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html
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