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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Looking for feedback on Gnome/KDE article
From:       Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples () mtu-net ! ru>
Date:       2002-12-14 9:47:27
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On Friday 13 December 2002 2:21 pm, Stefan Gehn wrote:
|  On Donnerstag Dezember 12 2002 19:16, Vadim Plessky wrote:
[...]
|
|  > * One standard, centralized, font management system, for both display
|  > and printing.
|  > VP:  it's called FontConfig.
|  > KDE 3.1/Qt-3.1 use FontConfig.
|
|  Then push the rest of the world to follow. FontConfig probably will not
| help me as a user with my OpenOffice nor will it help me with Gnumeric or
| other gtk/gnome apps as long as they do not use the new technique. The
| problem with standards and standard-libs is always the same: some people
| just don't want to use it or do not have the time to write support for it.
|  Are there any comments about FontConfig coming from other projects like
|  Mozilla, gtk, OO or whatever has to use FontConfig directly?
|

I think everyone should read FontConfig2 announce (mail by Keith packard is 
attached). Than it would be clear *what* is supported and *why*.
In particular:

"Thanks go to all of those involved in this release, in particular:
+      Lars Knoll and Brad Hughes for early integration of Xft into
        the Qt toolkit.

 +      Chris Blizzard and Brian Stell for help getting fontconfig ready
        to support Mozilla, and Chris for his work porting Mozilla to
        Xft2 and fontconfig.
"

If OpenOffice guys are not involved in FontConfig development - well, this 
explains that OO doesn't have FontConfig support at this moment.
IMO, they should ctach up ASAP, and add FC support into OO.

|
|  Bye, Stefan aka mETz

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With sufficient prodding, I've finally managed to build a release version 
of the various fontconfig related libraries.  Please find them at the
fontconfig web site:

	http://fontconfig.org

(that's the same as http://nexp.cs.pdx.edu/fontconfig if your DNS can't 
find fontconfig.org yet).

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.  It contains:

	Fontconfig	1.0.1
	Xft		2.0
	Xft1		1.1
	Xrender		1.1	(supports Render protocol 0.5)

Thanks go to all of those involved in this release, in particular:

 +	Julisuz Chroboczek and Raph Levien for the original vision
	of client-side fonts.

 +	Lars Knoll and Brad Hughes for early integration of Xft into
	the Qt toolkit.

 +	Chris Blizzard and Brian Stell for help getting fontconfig ready
	to support Mozilla, and Chris for his work porting Mozilla to
	Xft2 and fontconfig.

 +	Owen Taylor for help integrating fontconfig, Xft2 and Pango,
	and for help testing the release candidates.

 +	David Dawes and the XFree86 project for the window system.

 +	Dirk Hohndel for initial prodding on anti-aliased text.

 +	David Turner and the FreeType project for a free font engine.

 +	SuSE, Compaq and HP for supporting my work on this library.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab


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