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	Fontconfig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fontconfig (the name is spelled in both capitalized and uncapitalized form) is a library designed to provide system-wide font configuration, customization, and application access.
		Fontconfig is written and maintained by Keith Packard.
		Fontconfig depends on FreeType, a font renderer, and expat, an XML parser library, both are free software.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fontconfig (308 words)

	Debian -- fontconfig
		Fontconfig is a font configuration and customization library, which does not depend on the X Window System.
		Fontconfig is not a rasterization library, nor does it impose a particular rasterization library on the application.
		The X-specific library 'Xft' uses fontconfig along with freetype to specify and rasterize fonts.
	packages.debian.org /unstable/utils/fontconfig.html (192 words)

	Fontconfig: Font configuration and customization library: Overview
		Fontconfig contains two essential modules, the configuration module which builds an internal configuration from XML files and the matching module which accepts font patterns and returns the nearest matching font.
		Fontconfig performs matching by measuring the distance from a provided pattern to all of the available fonts in the system.
		Fontconfig provides an API to generate a list sorted by the nearness of each font to the pattern.
	www.xemacs.org /Documentation/packages/html/fontconfig_2.html (1233 words)

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		Configuration File Format Configuration files for fontconfig are stored in XML format; this format makes external configuration tools easier to write and ensures that they will generate syntactically correct configuration files.
		The fontconfig document type definition resides in the external entity "fonts.dtd"; this is normally stored in the default font configuration directory (/etc/fonts).
		Fontconfig will validate all of the configuration files and directories and automatically rebuild the internal datastructures when this interval passes.
	www.math.temple.edu /doc/packages/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.txt (2387 words)

	Bug ID: 6275318 RFE: use fontconfig to expand GTK logical font definitions
		In addition to the set of fonts which map these, fontconfig also provides a way for an app to express a language preference, which it uses to give priority in the returned list to fonts which support that language.
		Additionally fontconfig provides means to return additional information about how the font should be rendered, such as prefer embedded bitmaps, or use LCD text, n a per font basis which may over-ride a user's desktop settings.
		So, by calling into fontconfig, JDK should be able to build JDK composite font definitions which use the same fonts and exhibit the same rendering behaviour as GTK.
	bugs.sun.com /bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6275318 (345 words)

	Fontconfig's biggest bug \| www.kdedevelopers.org
		Yes, I'm talking about fontconfig checking all fonts and building an in-memory representation at application startup, as already mentioned in the KDE performance tips page.
		This fontconfig problem has had a noticeable impact on memory usage and startup time of KDE applications.
		It seems fontconfig rewrites the old file with new contents instead of unlinking the old file first and writing a new file.
	www.kdedevelopers.org /node/1495 (608 words)

	Re: [Fonts] Does fontconfig support xfs?
		This means that, for example, you can't access Type 1 glyphs that are outside the (limited) encoding vector, and that for large TrueType fonts, a lot of information about coverage and sizes needs to be repeatedly passed back and forth, slowing things down hugely.
		Fontconfig and Xft, on the other hand, give access to the font information in a much more usable and useful format.
		They also allow hinting and anti-aliasing that the old server-side font format never allowed for; the way they were implemented means that they need access to the actual font files, rather than the abstraction that Xfs presents.
	www.mail-archive.com /fonts@xfree86.org/msg01950.html (222 words)

	Slackware \| Font Configuration
		There is a general fontconfig configuration file at /etc/fonts/fonts.conf; this file is system generated and should not be edited because changes may be overwritten by the system.
		Fontconfig comes as part of the main X package and doesn't need to be installed separately; I'm not sure there's an advantage to compiling a separate package.
		Fontconfig should rebuild the list of fonts when it's run (restarting X should do this, I would think).
	jmccoy.sdf-us.org /slackware9/config/fonts/fonts.php (1814 words)

	Configuring FontConfig
		FontConfig is a library used by applications for finding fonts based on their names or other properties.
		A misconfigured FontConfig installation can lead to display problems in some applications — in particular Mozilla (including Firefox and Thunderbird) seems to be susceptible to them.
		FontConfig issues usually result in some accented characters being displayed in a different font than the rest of the text.
	hektor.umcs.lublin.pl /~mikosmul/computing/tips/fonts.html (316 words)

	TransGaming Technologies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Without Fontconfig WineX may not be able to load many fonts, thus limiting its ability to display the correct font.
		Fontconfig was successfully loaded by WineX, however upon attempting to get a fontlist from it, fontconfig returned a configuration error.
		As a result, we are using fontconfig, or another fallback, to select an appropriate alias.
	www.transgaming.com /gamefaq.php?specialid=3 (1055 words)

	FreshPorts -- x11-fonts/fontconfig
		Fontconfig does the following: * discover new fonts when installed automatically, removing a common source of configuration problems.
		Revert some of the FreeType code in fontconfig to fix some font rendering issues with Adboe fonts (particularly Helvetica and Times).
		Fix a bug in fontconfig's configure script that was causing fonts.conf to not include /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts if XFree86 was not installed.
	www.freshports.org /x11-fonts/fontconfig (1335 words)

	FONTS-CONF
		The configuration module consists of the FcConfig datatype, libexpat and FcConfigParse which walks over an XML tree and ammends a configuration with data found within.
		It currently supports 122 of the 139 languages named in ISO 639-1, 141 of the languages with two-letter codes from ISO 639-2 and another 30 languages with only three-letter codes.
		Configuration files for fontconfig are stored in XML format; this format makes external configuration tools easier to write and ensures that they will generate syntactically correct configuration files.
	www.math.ucla.edu /computing/docindex/fontconfig-man-5.html (2021 words)

	http://adesklets.sf.net/forum :: View topic - adesklets <= 0.6.1 segmentation fault on new FontConfig
		adeskletsae fontconfigum influenza (the great adesklets fontconfig flu), is a fatal, but easy-to-cure disease that causes all adesklets versions released to date (<= 0.6.1) to cough and die instantly when put in contact with FontConfig >= 2.4, as well as other late 2.3.x releases and development versions.
		The first workaround has the advantage that it works even for people using pre-compiled, system-specific versions: the problem is that if FontConfig got upgraded, there is probably another package somewhere that depends on the new library.
		The second workaround relieve the user from having to manually patch his code, but means that the ability to auto-detect the system fonts will be hampered: see the last entry of the FAQ for tips on how to work with FontConfig-disabled builts.
	adesklets.sourceforge.net /forum/viewtopic.php?t=341 (504 words)

	Installing fonts
		Installing a font for use by Xft applications is as simple as copying a font file into one of these directories.
		Fontconfig will notice the new font at the next opportunity and rebuild its list of fonts.
		Fontconfig's behaviour is controlled by a set of configuration files: a system-wide configuration file, `
	www.xfree86.org /current/fonts2.html (1635 words)

	LWN: Xft/Fontconfig release 2.0 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Fontconfig can: * discover new fonts when installed automatically, removing a common source of configuration problems.
		Fontconfig does not: * render the fonts themselves (this is left to FreeType or other rendering mechanisms) * depend on the X Window System in any fashion, so that printer only applications do not have such dependencies.
		Please find them at the fontconfig web site: http://fontconfig.org Because it includes version 2.0 of Xft, and because Fontconfig replaces functionality found in version 1 of Xft, I've labeled the package as version 2.0.
	lwn.net /Articles/9257 (396 words)

	seperate fontconfig and xfree86? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Jeroen Coumans wrote: > I understood that the fontconfig in XFree86 was the version which is > most actively being maintained, the fontconfig on www.fontconfig.com > was provided for people who can't or don't want to upgrade to 4.3 and > doesn't contain the latest code (?).
		The current fontconfig release is an upgrade to the fontconfig included with X. The previous release fc_package, contained fontconfig + all the components needed for X < 4.3 (such as Xft, Xft1, Xrender).
		The scenario is same for both fontconfig and freetype.
	www.linuxfromscratch.org /pipermail/blfs-dev/2003-April/002660.html (216 words)

	Making symbol fonts available to Mozilla builds using fontconfig
		In prior versions of browsers on linux, symbol fonts could be enabled by just creating an alias from a symbol font present on the system.
		The X display system, used on linux and unix, has recently started to use a new font renderer called fontconfig.
		Therefore it is necessary to provide this font that is explicitly encoded via 8859-1 for versions of browsers that use the fontconfig renderer.
	hutchinson.belmont.ma.us /tth/symfontconfig.html (554 words)

	Speaking of fontconfig bugs ... and using unstable versions \| www.kdedevelopers.org
		In case you have upgraded your fontconfig packages to those I provided in my blog entry about new fontconfig version, you may have run into KDE bug #116176 with the KDE3.5rc1 packages.
		I suggest you downgrade again or do your own build of newer fontconfig version or do whatever you want to do, but I'm not going to provide newer packages.
		Speaking of fontconfig bugs, with my current optimized KDE build I use for examining KDE startup performance, 1/3 (yes, that reads one third) of the startup time (with warm caches) is spent in fontconfig.
	www.kdedevelopers.org /node/1627 (430 words)

	Lair of the Toadking: Nessus fontconfig Problems
		I've been having some trouble running the Nessus client on OS X. Every time it ran, I got the following: No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig library is not correctly configured.
		No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig library is not correctly configured.
		More information about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual page and on http://fontconfig.org
	toadking.org /archives/2005/10/000943-nessus_fontconfig_problems.html (137 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Version Fontconfig version 2.2.1 _________________________________________________________ FreeType specific functions Table of Contents FcFreeTypeCharIndex -- map Unicode to glyph id FcFreeTypeCharSet -- compute unicode coverage FcFreeTypeQuery -- compute font file pattern While the fontconfig library doesn't insist that FreeType be used as the rasterization mechanism for fonts, it does provide some convenience functions.
		As a result, this function isn't designed to be used in performance sensitive areas; results from this function are intended to be cached by higher level functions.
		Version Fontconfig version 2.2.1 _________________________________________________________ FcValue Table of Contents FcValueDestroy -- Free a value FcValueSave -- Copy a value FcValue is a structure containing a type tag and a union of all possible datatypes.
	www.fis.unipr.it /doc/fontconfig-devel-2.2.1/fontconfig-devel.txt (6493 words)

	Fontconfig-2.3.2
		The Fontconfig package is a library for configuring and customizing font access.
		The beta versions of the package are numbered with a 9x in the last portion of the release number.
		X also includes an internal (and older) version of Fontconfig and unless it is explicitly disabled when building Xorg or XFree86, the internal version is created leaving two slightly incompatible libraries on your system.
	www.linuxfromscratch.org /blfs/view/cvs/general/fontconfig.html (324 words)

	Fontconfig + Gnome2
		And yesterday-evening I compiled fontconfig for this fresh and thus still warm installation of gnome 2.0.2.
		The first step I took was installing the latest freetype in the garnome-tree and compile it.
		When you use gdm2, and click on the 'language'-button you might be able to see chinese/japanese or whatever correctly rendered.
	mail.gnome.org /archives/garnome-list/2002-September/msg00213.html (552 words)

	LSB-Futures Tracker - fontconfig
		Current status of fontconfig in the LSB Futures process
		fontconfig is a library to unify application use of fonts in free software systems
		Fontconfig is used across almost all Linux Desktop applications as the fundemental font configuration mechanism, eliminating a common source of font access difficulties.
	www.freestandards.org /futures/candidates/fontconfig/index.html (110 words)

Fontconfig: Font configuration and customization library: Configuration File Format

Fontconfig: Font configuration and customization library: Configuration File Format

The fontconfig document type definition resides in the external entity `

version="1.0"?> fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> ~/misc/fonts

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