[Fontconfig] Ignoring bitmap fonts by default

Ambrose Li
2005-11-21T08:51:02Z

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 06:29:40PM +0330, Roozbeh Pournader
wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 09:09, Keith Packard wrote:
> > The local.conf file included in fontconfig 2.2.99 has a
<selectfont>
> > element which disables all bitmap fonts.
> >
> > Is this a good idea for a default?
>
> I believe it is. Bitmap fonts are considered very bad for any
"complex"
> scripts, and since fontconfig doesn''t handle the cases of fonts
that
> claim to support complex scripts but don''t have the required
additional
> tables yet, ignoring the bitmap fonts (which are the majority of such
> fonts) by default could be considered a workaround until the bug is
> fixed/the feature is implemented.

On the other hand I think it''s very important to also explain how to
enable bitmapped fonts.