On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 08:05:07AM +0100, Marco Fioretti wrote: > > I just read here : > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2002-March/msg00298.html > > the following statement, right before the last paragraph: > > This also unifies font > selection and configuration under the Fontconfig library making fonts > portable from display to printer > > Why does that happen, and under which conditions? > fontconfig is separate from Xft because Xft is the part that draws to the X window system, and fontconfig is the part that configures and locates fonts. This is intended to enable an X-independent printing library that uses fontconfig and thus uses all the same fonts and configuration as your X applications. TrueType and Type1 fonts would be downloaded to the printer (or stuffed into postscript documents). Only the characters that are used are downloaded/stuffed so it's not huge. The "libgnomeprint22" library in rawhide now is a very early version of such a printing library. Qt in rawhide may also be using such a setup, I'm not sure. WYSIWYG printed documents are one of the important reasons for moving to fontconfig. Havoc -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
