Around 13 o''clock on Apr 19, Vadim Plessky wrote:> Can you please elaborate what do you mean under "support for Bitstream Vera > families of fonts"?The Vera fonts have GASP entries requesting that hinting be disabled below 8ppem, but FreeType (or perhaps Xft) don''t look in those tables, preferring to use the INSTCTRL instruction in the bytecode stream to disable hinting at small sizes. The Vera fonts don''t (yet) have this instruction included in the ''prep'' tables, so they''re getting hinted at small sizes. I stuck hacks in the default fonts.conf file to turn off hinting at small sizes. I also added Vera to the list of fonts selected in the default generic aliases so that users would see them in the right places.> But if you mean here hard-coding Vera names in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf - than > can you please exmplain what is needed to add support for my fonts which > would be released soon?If you''ve got fonts that will be widely distributed with open source systems, then we can add them to the generic aliases. -keith
On Thursday 17 April 2003 02:36, Keith Packard wrote: | Juliusz Chroboczek and Gerard Escalante added code that looks at BDF, | Type1 and TrueType files to fill in more holes in the available font | information, in particular we now get foundry and width information for | all types of fonts. These changes were relatively minor and shouldn''t | cause any problems (famous last words). | | I''ve also added support for the newly released Bitstream Vera families of | fonts which should be released RSN. Hello Keith, Can you please elaborate what do you mean under "support for Bitstream Vera families of fonts"? I thought that fonts are supported by FreeType renderer / Xft and there is no need for further support in other libs/application. But if you mean here hard-coding Vera names in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf - than can you please exmplain what is needed to add support for my fonts which would be released soon? Greetings, Vadim | | With luck, this should be the last release candidate before 2.2 ships. | | http://fontconfig.org/release/fontconfig-2.1.94.tar.gz | | -keith | | _______________________________________________ | Fontconfig mailing list | Fontconfig@fontconfig.org | http://mail.fontconfig.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig -- Best Regards, Vadim Plessky SVG Icons * BlueSphere Icons 0.3.0 released http://svgicons.sourceforge.net
Juliusz Chroboczek and Gerard Escalante added code that looks at BDF, Type1 and TrueType files to fill in more holes in the available font information, in particular we now get foundry and width information for all types of fonts. These changes were relatively minor and shouldn''t cause any problems (famous last words). I''ve also added support for the newly released Bitstream Vera families of fonts which should be released RSN. With luck, this should be the last release candidate before 2.2 ships. http://fontconfig.org/release/fontconfig-2.1.94.tar.gz -keith