On 15-05-12 01:17 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > 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. Ignore that. I was testing with an old binary apparently. Let me fix this. >> 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
