Le mercredi 12 avril 2023 à 01:12 +0100, Idriss Fekir a écrit :
Hi,
Some fonts aren't matched by fontconfig correctly e.g: the Amber Whiskey
family has 4 faces Regular, Aged, Full Color, Shadow.
fc-match "Amber Whiskey"outputs "Aged" instead of "Regular", And
since Pango relies on fontconfig for that, it also exhibits the same
behavior (e.g: Inkscape an gimp, both rely on pango, would pick the
"Aged" variant). This could be worked around with a rule:<match target="pattern"> <test name="family"> <string>Amber Whiskey</string> </test> <edit name="style"> <string>Regular</string> </edit> </match>My question is how can i do that but in code (in C), that is
how can i check what fc-match would output, then if the output is wrong
add a rule like the following to the FcConfig?I'm open to suggestions if there are better ways.
I did read the docs but i couldn't figure out how.
The man page for FcFontMatch says that it should only be called after
FcConfigSubstitute and FcDefaultSubstitute have been called for
the pattern, i don't understand what that means exactly.Thanks a lot.
I'm not a Fontconfig developer, but I will try to answer your question anyway.
As far as I understand, the intent of Fontconfig is to make font configuration shared and static. So, if the font in question is installed through a package manager, the package should normally also include a conf file that makes Fontconfig handle the font correctly.
If you're not taking it from a package, I think you could try
FcConfigParseAndLoad(NULL, (FcChar8 *) "your-config-file.conf", FcTrue);
or
FcConfigParseAndLoadFromMemory(NULL, (FcChar8 *) "<the string of Fontconfig XML code that you would put in a file>", FcTrue);
Best,
Jean
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