[cairo] cairo without fontconfig revisited

[cu]

Thanks, all - and indeed I was primarily unclear as to where the patch
is. However, more importantly, it appears that Cairo 1.9.2 has a
configure option to disable fontconfig, as it turns out. So we took a
plunge and switched to 1.9.2 on the platform where fontconfig gave most
trouble. The new method works just fine and we have a much better
control of the fonts we are using.

The other issue was usage of the direct FreeType API. It is in the cairo
API description, but there are no examples as far as I could see. It
turned out to be very manageable but some additional documentation on
the topic (perhaps a code snippet showing
FT_New_Face/cairo_ft_font_face_create_for_ft_face/cairo_scaled_font_create
would be helpful).

Somewhat tangentially, it appears that once scaled font is created based
on unscaled font, the unscaled font can be safely destroyed?

Thanks!

> I don't know, Behdad. You seemed awfully willing to help here in spite
> of the fact that you didn't think there was enough homework done. ;-)
>
> But really, cu did obviously search the archives, and did find the right
> thread that does even describe the above commit:
>
> http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2009-March/016765.html
>
> So perhaps all that was unclear was where this patch finally ended up. 
>
> That commit is in the "master" branch, which means it appears in
> checkouts from git as well as in the current 1.9.2 snapshot, (but not
> yet in any release such as the latest 1.8.8).
>
> -Carl
>
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