README

   1                         Fontconfig
   2         Font configuration and customization library
   3                       Version 2.3.2
   4                          2005-4-23
   5
   6 Check INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
   7 Report bugs to https://bugs.freedesktop.org in the fontconfig module.
   8
   9 2.3.2
  10
  11 Patch memory leaks in using iconv.  (keithp)
  12 Fetch bitmap glyphs to get widths during font evaluation. (keithp)
  13 Share strings through FcObjectStaticName (Ross Burton)
  14 Windows build updates (Tor Lillqvist)
  15
  16 2.3.1
  17
  18 Be more careful about broken GSUB/GPOS tables (Manish Singh)
  19 Include debian packaging stuff in CVS (Josselin Mouette)
  20 Add more conf.d examples (Keith Packard)
  21 Make manuals build again (Keith Packard)
  22 Johap -> Johab (Funda Wang)
  23
  24 2.3.0
  25
  26 Fix memory leak of patterns rejected by configuration (#2518)
  27
  28 Create prototype /etc/fonts/conf.d directory and populate it with a few
  29 sample files.  These samples are unused as the file names don't start with
  30 numbers.
  31
  32 Update documentation.
  33
  34 2.2.99
  35
  36 Verify cache for FC_FILE and FC_FAMILY in every entry (#2219)
  37
  38 Update blanks list from recent Unicode docs (#86)
  39
  40 Various small build fixes (#280, #2278,
  41
  42 Documentation fixes (#2085, #2284, #2285)
  43
  44 Add polite typechecking to config file loader (#229)
  45
  46 2.2.98
  47
  48 Share object name strings (Michael Meeks)
  49
  50 Eliminate a couple of codepoints from Russian orthography (John Thacker)
  51
  52 Add synthetic emboldening configuration changes (Jakub Pavelek)
  53
  54 Change FcFontSetSort to ignore language after fonts with the requested
  55 languages have been found. (Owen Taylor)
  56
  57 Add some RedHat font configuration changes (Owen Tayler).
  58
  59 Add full Unicode case folding support to case-ignoring string functions
  60 (Keith Packard)
  61
  62 Remove Han characters from Korean orthography (Tor Andersson)
  63
  64 2.2.97
  65
  66 Fc-cache sleeps before exiting to ensure filesystem timestamps are well
  67 ordered.
  68
  69 Added Punjai orthography.
  70
  71 The timestamp in fonts.conf is gone now.  Too many problems.
  72
  73 The default font path includes all of the X fonts; use selectfont/rejectfont
  74 to eliminate bitmaps, as shown in the sample local.conf file.
  75
  76 <include> configuration elements may now reference a directory.  Files
  77 in that directory matching [0-9]* are loaded in UTF-8 collating sequence order.
  78
  79 <selectfont> configuration added to control which fonts are used.
  80
  81 fontformat font pattern elements built from the FT_Get_X11_Font_Format
  82 function in newer versions of FreeType.
  83
  84 'capability' list constructed from gsub/gpos and silf values in TrueType
  85 files.
  86
  87 Multi-lingual names (style, family, fullname) extracted and stored with
  88 parallel <foo>lang properties marking language.
  89
  90 2.2.96
  91
  92 Fix FcConfigUpToDate to actually check all font directories and eliminate
  93 a typo which completely prevented it from working (Lubos Lunak
  94 <l.lunak@suse.cz>)
  95
  96 Remove comma at end of FcResult enum definition for picky compilers.
  97
  98 2.2.95
  99
 100 Add FcResultOutOfMemory so FcFontSetMatch can return accurate error.
 101
 102 Replace MIN/MAX/ABS macros which happened to be in old FreeType releases
 103 with FC_MIN/FC_MAX/FC_ABS macros owned by fontconfig.
 104
 105 2.2.94
 106
 107 The 2.2.93 release was prepared with a broken libtool which created
 108 the shared library without the '.so' in the file names.
 109
 110 2.2.93
 111
 112 This is the third prerelease of fontconfig 2.3.  Significant changes from
 113 2.2.92 are:
 114
 115  o      Use new FreeType #include syntax
 116  o      use y_ppem field instead of 'height' in bitmap sizes rec -
 117         FreeType changed the semantics.  Still uses height for
 118         older versions of FreeType
 119  o      Don't construct program manuals unless docbook is available
 120
 121 2.2.92
 122
 123  o      make distcheck work
 124
 125 2.2.91
 126
 127  o      Switch to SGML manuals
 128  o      Add FC_DUAL width spacing value
 129  o      Add FcFini to close out fontconfig and release all memory
 130
 131 2.2
 132
 133 This is the third public release of fontconfig, a font configuration and
 134 customization library.  Fontconfig is designed to locate fonts within the
 135 system and select them according to requirements specified by applications.
 136
 137 Fontconfig is not a rasterization library, nor does it impose a particular
 138 rasterization library on the application.  The X-specific library
 139 'Xft' uses fontconfig along with freetype to specify and rasterize fonts.
 140
 141 Keith Packard
 142 keithp@keithp.com