On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 12:18 -0400, Isaiah Beerbower wrote: > >> I am working on GNUstep's (http://www.gnustep.org/) font support. One >> of GNUstep's goals is to implement the OpenStep specification >> (http://www.gnustep.org/resources/OpenStepSpec.pdf.gz). Fontconfig is >> already being used by GNUstep, however, in order to properly implement >> the OpenStep standard the Postscript name should be used to uniquely >> reference a font. Right now GNUstep is using the full font name, >> however, it would be better if the Postscript name was cached so that >> it could be used instead. So my final question is: what are the pros >> and cons to adding the Postscript name to the properties which >> Fontconfig caches? >> >> I've included a patch (below) which adds the functionality. > > That seems fine, however note that this won't let you search for fonts > by postscript name. If you want to do that, you can modify the font > matching code to look for postscript names in the pattern. > Yes, I would want it to be searchable. I'll send a new patch as soon as I have it ready. Thanks, - Isaiah Beerbower -- www.ipaqah.com _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
