On 15-05-10 12:10 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > 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. That's so weird. How do you test this? I just ran it, and if I copy a new font on top of the filename, the app instantly picks it up (I'm not sure how!), but there doesn't seem to any issue with glyph numbers. I tested copying NotoNastaliq and IranNastaliq on top of each other and it works just fine. > > 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 > -- behdad http://behdad.org/ _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
