On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 07:19:11PM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > Hi all, > > I am at the Libre Graphics Meeting in Toronto this week, which meant that I > got to talk to GIMP and Inkscape developers after many years, and was reminded > that Pango still doesn't make it easy to use custom (aka application fonts), > and it still does not allow one to turn OpenType features on or off. So I > ended up doing a complete review of the stack, fixed small stuff, filed many > bugs, and documented it all. Details here: > > http://mces.blogspot.ca/2015/05/how-to-use-custom-application-fonts.html > > Hopefully we can make the next release of the stack much better, and work with > app developers to integrate these. I gave it a try[1] and it seems to work for my use case (I don’t even need to select a Pango font, since might is the only one Pango seems to just pick it), with one glitch: If the font gets changed while the viewer is open (e.g. adding or removing glyphs), Pango will start drawing garbage glyphs (seems to be using the old glyph indices) even though I recreate the config, fontmap, layout and everything. This is specially important for this application as I use it to test fonts while I’m working on them, not sure if it is that relevant for common use cases. This seems to be a general Pango issue, if I modify a font while an application is using it, I get similar issues. Regards, Khaled 1. https://github.com/khaledhosny/fontview/commit/0353750 _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
