[cairo] cairo without fontconfig revisited

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Tue Jul 21 11:20:28 PDT 2009


On 07/21/2009 12:55 PM, cu wrote:
> I found the thread "Request: Separate FreeType and Fontconfig" and that
> is the discussion I was referring to. Two things though:
> 1) I was not sure whether that thread came to a definite conclusion.
> There were a few patches proposed but to the best of my understanding
> they were for previous versions of Cairo. We are currently using 1.8.x
> and it would be great to get a "definitive" patch.

This is the commit:
3ec94f9b5917b8f71304c982bd153e5a810f3b12


> 2) I don't think there was a discussion on how to provide fonts or font
> patterns to Cairo when fontconfig is not available. It would be great if
> someone who has experience working with that could provide some help,
> perhaps a code example etc.

cairo_ft_font_face_create_for_ft_face().


> Any help with that would be very much appreciated!

People are typically more willing if you show that you have done your homework.


Cheers,
behdad


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