Well, it sounds like what you want to do is to make a substitution font for Arial and Arial condensed etc. just putting the following rule into $HOME/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf, or $HOME/.fonts.conf if you are using 2.9.0 or earlier: <alias> <family>Arial</family> <prefer><family>Arial condensed</family></prefer> </alias> With this rule, fontconfig will returns Arial condensed when requesting Arial. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:50 AM, mathog <mathog@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This does raise a question though. If a document is prepared on a system > that has, for instance, "Arial condensed", > and it must be handled on a system which just has "Arial" (and for > argument's sake, no other condensed fonts) > how does one deal with the situation? Is there a way to convince FreeType > to expand/contract the Arial font that > it does have? Does FontConfig have anything to do with this process? > > I know there is: FT_Set_Char_Size() which has separate char width and height > fields. If the width/height were > changed from 0/height to (some fraction of the height)/height, would this > accomplish the desired effect? > > > Thank you, > > David Mathog > mathog@xxxxxxxxxxx > Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech > _______________________________________________ > Fontconfig mailing list > Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig -- Akira TAGOH _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
