Re: Same fonts on display and paper via fontconfig?

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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



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