I have Here is the wired in config file locations ehich don't mean a lot to WIN32 /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/fonts/fonts.dtd /etc/fonts/conf.d ~/.fonts.conf > -----Original Message----- > From: mpsuzuki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mpsuzuki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 2:08 PM > To: Arif Bilgin > Cc: fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: WIN32 questions > > Hi, > > Do you have the source of fontconfig and checked it? > I think most of your questions are easily understood > from the source. > > On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:19:34 -0500 > "Arif Bilgin" <arif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >I am a Graphviz developer who is particularly in charge of WIN32 port > of it. > >Because of the application directory structure differences between > *nix > >systems and WIN32 , I have had hard time to figure out few things > about > >fontconfig. > > > >Here are my questions > > > >1) Is there a way to specify the location of fonts.conf file.It seems > >fontconfig looks for ../etc/fonts/fonts.conf and I like to move it > somewhere > >in windows users application data directory. > > To change the location of system-wide configuration file > from ${prefix}/etc/fonts/fonts.conf to anywhere, using > --sysconfdir=DIR would be popular for autoconfized softwares. > The location of the system-wide fonts.conf would be installed > to DIR/fonts/fonts.conf. > > But you wrote "windows users application data directory". > Do you mean something like > > "C:\Documents and Settings\foo\Application Data\bar\fonts.conf" > > ? The location of per-user configuration file is specified > by the system-wide configuration file. Please find > /etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf, it describes > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> > <fontconfig> > <!-- Load per-user customization file --> > <include ignore_missing="yes">~/.fonts.conf.d</include> > <include ignore_missing="yes">~/.fonts.conf</include> > </fontconfig> > > You can change the location of per-user configuration fonts.conf > by customizing this file, or add new file into the directory > ${prefix}/etc/fonts/conf.d/ > > >2) Does fontconfig have a function that creates the config files > >automatically and sets the appropriate windows font directory value. > Right > >now It has to be done during installation of our application and that > causes > >problems on some win32 boxes with tight security policies. > > I'm not sure what is the problem. About the configuration files, > I think the installation of fontconfig just copies the system-wide > configuration files to the configured directory. If copying files > to the configured directory causes the security problem, maybe > you will have to install everything (both of library DLLs and > configuration files) per-user... is it what you want to do? > > About "appropriate windows font directory" - please check > the part enclosed by "#ifdef _WIN32" ... "#endif" in > fontconfig/src/fcxml.c. fontconfig is designed to set the > directories in run-time, in automatically, by Win32 APIs. > > >3) We use pangocairo as font renderer for Graphviz. Pangocairo has its > own > >way of handling fontconfig calls.It is a black box for us.We feed > pangocairo > >with a font description and hope that it finds the right font. > > Why you cannot use Win32 font backend of Pangocairo? > > >There are times that user knows everything about a font (name of the > file > >,location of the file) but we still have to go through to whole font > >matching process to force fontconfig to locate the font file that we > already > >know. Is there a way to tell fontconfig "hey this is the font file , > just > >give it back to me (in our case give it back to pangocairo) as a > return > >value". Do we need to maintain a font name-font file map and use it to > >achieve that. > > I'm not sure what you mean "give it back to me". Do you want > to get some identifier in fontconfig from given pathname? > I think fontconfig does not have any identifier except of > the pathname of the font file (and the index to specify > a face in TTC). Other properties (or combination of them) > are not guaranteed to be unique key to specify the font. > > I guess, what you want to do might be... > > * you're using pangocairo with fontconfig backend. > * you have to specify a font for pangocairo with a face name. > * but the face name Windows user see is (sometimes) different > from the face name fontconfig manages. > * so you want an unique key to specify a font via fontconfig, > from concrete pathname of the font file. > > I think there is no perfect way. However, if you allow the > ambiguity that cannot be identified by the combination of > family name, style name and full name, you can use the combination > of them as an identifier. I'm not familiar with the smart > Win32 way to extract these strings from given pathname of > the font file. If there's no, FreeType2 can extract these > properties from given pathname of the font file. > > Regards, > mpsuzuki _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
