Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 06/16/07 15:36, Anssi Hannula wrote: >> Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >>> On 06/10/07 17:53, Anssi Hannula wrote: >>>> + strcpy(FontOsd, "arialbd.ttf"); >>>> + strcpy(FontSml, "arial.ttf"); >>>> + strcpy(FontFix, "courbd.ttf"); >>>> >>>> I'd use some free-as-in-freedom font (Vera?) by default, that are more >>>> likely installed in systems. >>> Those were the ones suggested in Alexander Riedel's original patch. >>> Which ones would you suggest? >>> >> If you will decide to go with fontconfig, just for the record, the >> relevant aliases AFAIK are "sans-serif:bold", "sans-serif", and >> "monospace:bold", i.e. for the current defaults "Arial Bold", "Arial" >> and "Courier Bold". There probably is another way to specify bold (or >> query bold capability) using fontconfig functions as well, but :bold >> seems to work for me. > > Yes, I'm currently going for fontconfig - looks very promising so far. > > And your hint is much appreciated - that's exactly what I needed > right now :-) About those bolds.. It seems using the ":bold" suffix isn't reliable, i.e. at least here using "monospace:bold" and calling FcFontSort returns non-monospace fonts ahead of the wanted monospace fonts. Using this it works correctly, though, and the bold monospace font is returned first: FcPatternAddInteger(fc_pattern, FC_WEIGHT, FC_WEIGHT_BOLD) -- Anssi Hannula _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
