Fontconfig - Nov 2005 - Installed 2.1.94 - dependencies, fails to read win\fonts and local.conf

Around 19 o''clock on Apr 18, "sean darcy" wrote:
> 1. the fontconfig.spec file should have a Requires for freetype-2.1.4.
I''ve patched the code to run with earlier versions.
> 2. The present spec file overwrites local.conf. I thought local.conf was 
> where we put  system-wide stuff that wouldn''t be overwritten like 
> fonts.conf.
Oops.  I''ve only tested in my environment, can you figure out why this 
happened?  It should test to see if the file already exists before 
installing a new version.
> 3. the local.conf that is put there is odd.
It''s supposed to be an example so that people can see how the file is 
structured; the included match/edit rule shouldn''t be enabled by
default.
> fc-cache: ".": skipping, 240 fonts, 0 dirs
> fc-cache: succeeded
> 
> Which appears to mean it skipped all the fonts. I realize some ( maybe 
> 10-15) are not truetype, but should it skip them all?
Ah.  Misleading comment -- ''skipping'' really means that it
believes the
fonts.cache-1 file already contains the correct information about all of 
those fonts.
> [root@amd1900 Fonts]# fc-cache -v -f /win/ddrive/Winnt/Fonts
> fc-cache: "/win/ddrive/Winnt/Fonts": Segmentation fault
FreeType has a bug that causes this crash when looking at .fon fonts. 
I''ve
put a work-around in fontconfig to avoid it.

Thanks for your comments; can you check out the local.conf issue above?

-keith

I''ve installed 2.1.94. Sure makes the new Bitstream fonts look great.

Some suggestions - questions:

1. the fontconfig.spec file should have a Requires for freetype-2.1.4.

2. The present spec file overwrites local.conf. I thought local.conf was 
where we put  system-wide stuff that wouldn''t be overwritten like 
fonts.conf.

3. the local.conf that is put there is odd.

<fontconfig>
<!--
  Enable sub-pixel rendering
        <match target="font">
                <test qual="all" name="rgba">
                        <const>unknown</const>
                </test>
                <edit name="rgba"
mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
        </match>
-->
</fontconfig>

I don''t know much - any - XML, but isn''t it all commented out?
Should it be
uncommented? Shouldn''t it be in fonts.conf?

4. I have a dual boot machine. i''d like to use all the ttf fonts I have
in
the windows font directory. But when I run fc-cache I get:

[root@amd1900 Fonts]# fc-cache -v .
fc-cache: ".": skipping, 240 fonts, 0 dirs
fc-cache: succeeded

Which appears to mean it skipped all the fonts. I realize some ( maybe 
10-15) are not truetype, but should it skip them all?

I then tried:

[root@amd1900 Fonts]# fc-cache -v -f /win/ddrive/Winnt/Fonts
fc-cache: "/win/ddrive/Winnt/Fonts": Segmentation fault

Any  thoughts?

sean



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