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1 Fontconfig
2 Font configuration and customization library
3 Version 2.4.92 (2.5 RC2)
4 2007-11-5
5
6
7 Check INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
8 Report bugs to https://bugs.freedesktop.org in the fontconfig module.
9
10 2.4.92 (2.5 RC2)
11
12 Behdad Esfahbod (14):
13 Make fc-match --sort call FcFontRenderPrepare.
14 Port fonts-persian.conf to new alias syntax with binding="same"
15 Fix trivial bugs in edit-sgml.c
16 Add FcGetLangs() and FcLangGetCharSet().
17 Add/update config files from Fedora.
18 Split 40-generic.conf into 40-nonlatin.conf and 45-latin.conf
19 Use binding="same" in 30-urw-aliases.conf and remove duplicate entries.
20 Remove redundant/obsolete comments from conf files.
21 Remove 20-lohit-gujarati.conf. It's covered by 25-unhint-nonlatin.conf now.
22 Oops, fix Makefile.am.
23 Remove 25-unhint-nonlatin.conf from default configuration by not linking it.
24 Fix documented conf-file naming format in README
25 Remove list of available conf files from README.
26 Simplify/improve 30-metric-aliases.conf
27
28 Keith Packard (25):
29 Also check configDirs mtimes in FcConfigUptoDate
30 Respect "binding" attribute in <alias> entries.
31 Correct documentation for FcAtomicLock (Bug 12947).
32 Remove fcprivate.h, move the remaining macros to fcint.h.
33 Correct documentation for FcConfigUptoDate (bug 12948).
34 Document skipping of fonts from FcFileScan/FcDirScan.
35 Make file_stat argument to FcDirCacheLoadFile optional.
36 Clean up exported names in fontconfig.h.
37 Track line numbers in sgml edit tool input.
38 Typo error in function name: Inverval -> interval
39 Don't check cache file time stamps when cleaning cache dir.
40 Use FcLangDifferentTerritory instead of FcLangDifferentCountry.
41 Verify documentation covers exposed symbols.
42 Document previously undocumented functions. (bug 12963)
43 Update documentation for FcStrCopyFilename (bug 12964).
44 Update documentation for stale FcConfigGetConfig function.
45 Have FcConfigSetCurrent accept the current configuration and simply return
46 Remove references to FcConfigParse and FcConfigLoad.
47 Replace incorrect documentation uses of 'char' with 'FcChar8' (bug 13002).
48 Fix formatting syntax in doc/fccache.fncs
49 Generate fccache.sgml, fcdircache.sgml and fclangset.sgml.
50 Formatting syntax mistake in doc/fclangset.fncs.
51 Link new function documentation into the fontconfig-devel.sgml
52 Ignore new generated documentation
53 Export FcConfig{G,S}etRescanInverval from .so, mark as deprecated.
54
55 2.4.91 (2.5 RC1)
56
57 Behdad Esfahbod (1):
58 Update CaseFolding.txt to Unicode 5.1.0
59
60 Dwayne Bailey (1):
61 Add/fix *.orth files for South African languages
62
63 Hideki Yamane (1):
64 Handle Japanese fonts better. (debian bug #435971)
65
66 Keith Packard (32):
67 rehash increment could be zero, causing rehash infinite loop.
68 Work around FreeType bug when glyph name buffer is too small.
69 Free temporary string in FcDirCacheUnlink (Bug #11758)
70 Fix ChangeLog generation to avoid circular make dependency
71 Store font directory mtime in cache file.
72 Comment about mmaping cache files was misleading.
73 Make FC_FULLNAME include all fullname entries, elide nothing. [bug 12827]
74 Remove unneeded call to access(2) in fc-cache.
75 Improve verbose messages from fc-cache.
76 Verbose message about cleaning directories was imprecise
77 Don't use X_OK bit when checking for writable directories (bug 12438)
78 Have fc-cache remove invalid cache files from cache directories.
79 FcConfigParseAndLoad doc was missing the last param.
80 Place language name in constant array instead of pointer.
81 Must not insert cache into hash table before completely validating.
82 Eliminate relocations for glyph name table.
83 Eliminate relocations from FcCodePageRange structure (bug 10982).
84 Leave generated headers out of distribution (bug 12734).
85 Move <cachedir> elements to the end of fonts.conf.
86 Add BRAILLE PATTERN BLANK to list of blank glyphs.
87 Replace makealias pattern with something supported by POSIX grep (bug 11083)
88 FcInit should return FcFalse when FcInitLoadConfigAndFonts fails. (bug 10976)
89 There is no U+1257 (bug 10899).
90 Spelling errors in documentation. (bug 10879).
91 Oops. Left debugging printf in previous commit.
92 Handle UltraBlack weight.
93 Fix parallel build in fontconfig/docs (bug 10481).
94 Distribute man source files for command line programs (bug 9678).
95 Ensure weight/slant values present even when style is supplied (bug 9313).
96 fontconfig needs configure option to use gnu iconv (bug 4083).
97 Match 'ultra' on word boundaries to detect ultra bold fonts. (bug 2511)
98 Build fix for Solaris 10 with GCC.
99
100 Mike FABIAN (1):
101 Avoid crashes if config files contain junk.
102
103 Stephan Kulow (1):
104 Make FcPatternDuplicate copy the binding instead of always using Strong.
105
106 Tilman Sauerbeck (2):
107 Store FcNoticeFoundries in read-only memory.
108 Store FcVendorFoundries in read-only memory.
109
110 2.4.2
111
112 Han-Wen Nienhuys:
113 FcStrCanonFileName buggy for mingw. (bug 8311)
114 More fixes for Win32 building (bug 8311)
115
116 Kean Johnston:
117 Don't use varargs CPP macros in fccache.c. (bug 8733)
118
119 Keith Packard:
120 Remove documentation for non-existant FcConfigNormalizeFontDir.
121 Build fontconfig.def from header files when needed.
122 Detect and use available random number generator (bug 8308)
123 Add sparc64 architecture string.
124 FcStrCanonAbsoluteFilename should be static.
125 Use explicit platform/nameid order when scanning ttf files.
126 Warn (and recover) from config file without <cachedir> elements.
127 Avoid writing uninitialized structure pad bytes to cache files.
128 Fix grep pattern in makealias to work on non-Gnu grep (bug 8368).
129 Add FcFreeTypeQueryFace external API. Bug #7311.
130 Segfault scanning non-font files. Disallow scan edit of user vars. (#8767)
131 Add space between type and formal in devel man pages (bug 8935)
132
133 Mike FABIAN:
134 Do not clean cache files for different architectures
135
136 Peter Breitenlohner:
137 A VPATH build of fontconfig-2.4.1 fails for various reasons. Bug 8933.
138 Use <literal> instead of <sgmltag> when documenting fonts.conf. Bug 8935.
139 Fix fc-cat documentation (bug 8935).
140
141
142 2.4.1
143
144 Keith Packard:
145 Update installation notes for 2.4 base.
146 Add ppc64 signature. Bug 8227
147 Add signatures for m68k and mipsel (thanks debian buildd)
148 Add warning flags to fc-cache build. Clean up warnings in fc-cache.
149 Reimplement FcConfigAppFontAddDir; function was lost in 2.4.0.
150
151 2.4.0
152
153 David Turner:
154 Replace character discovery loop with simpler, faster version.
155
156 James Cloos:
157 Move files from conf.d to conf.avail
158 Standardize conf.avail number prefixing convention
159 Support all five possibilities for sub-pixel
160 Move user and local conf file loading into conf.avail files
161 Number the remaining conf.avail files
162 Update Makefile.am to match conf.avail changes
163 Replace load of conf.d in fonts.conf.in
164 Make room for chunks from fonts.conf in conf.avail
165 Re-order old conf.d files
166 Move some section from fonts.conf into conf.avail files
167 Update Makefile.am files
168 Make conf.avail and conf.d work
169
170 Keith Packard:
171 Create fc_cachedir at install time. Bug 8157.
172 Reference patterns in FcCacheCopySet.
173 Replace gnu-specific sed command with simple grep.
174 Attempt to fix makealias usage for build on Mac OS X.
175 Accept locale environment variables that do not contain territory.
176 Merge branch 'jhcloos'
177 Insert newly created caches into reference data structure.
178 Add XML headers to new conf files. Move link make commands to conf.avail dir
179 Rename conf.avail to conf.d
180 Fix conf.d directory sorting.
181 Include cachedir in fonts.dtd.
182 Don't display tests for DESTDIR on make install.
183 Split much of the configuration into separate files. Renumber files
184
185 2.3.97
186
187 Carl Worth:
188 Rename FcPatternThawAll to FcPatternFini.
189 Add a configuration file that disables hinting for the Lohit Gujarati font
190
191 Keith Packard:
192 Various GCC 4 cleanups for signed vs unsigned char
193 Finish INSTALL changes. .gitignore ChangeLog
194 Merge branch 'fc-2_4_branch' to master
195 Remove all .cvsignore files
196 Hide private functions in shared library. Export functionality for utilities.
197 Hide FreeType glue code from library ABI.
198 Can't typecheck values for objects with no known type.
199 Leave cache files mapped permanently.
200 Reference count cache objects.
201 Make cache reference counting more efficient.
202 Oops, fc-lang broke when I added cache referencing.
203 Correct reference count when sharing cache file objects.
204 Eliminate .so PLT entries for local symbols. (thanks to Arjan van de Ven)
205 Update architecture signatures for x86-64 and ppc.
206 Parallel build fix for fcalias.h and fcaliastail.h
207 Charset hashing depended on uniqueness of leaves.
208
209 Patrick Lam:
210 file Makefile.am was initially added on branch fc-2_4_branch.
211 Modify config file to use Greek fonts before Asian fonts with Greek glyphs.
212 Use libtool -no-undefined flag on all platforms.
213 file ftglue.c was initially added on branch fc-2_4_branch.
214 2005-11-23 Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@mandriva.com>: reviewed by: plam
215 file 10-fonts-persian.conf was initially added on branch fc-2_4_branch.
216 Sort directory entries while scanning them from disk; prevents Heisenbugs
217 file ln.orth was initially added on branch fc-2_4_branch.
218 Fix typos in orth files. Reported by Denis Jacquerye.
219 On Windows, unlink before rename. Reported by Tim Evans.
220 file fc-match.sgml was initially added on branch fc-2_4_branch.
221
222 2.3.96
223
224 Keith Packard:
225 Make path names in cache files absolute (NB, cache format change) Stop
226 Eliminate pattern freezing
227 Add .gitignore
228 Construct short architecture name from architecture signature.
229 Write caches to first directory with permission. Valid cache in FcDirCacheOpen.
230 Eliminate NormalizeDir. Eliminate gratuitous stat/access calls per dir.
231 Add architecture to cache filename.
232 Eliminate global cache. Eliminate multi-arch cache code.
233 Fix up fc-cache and fc-cat for no global cache changes.
234 Eliminate ./ and ../ elements from font directory names when scanning.
235 Regenerate x86 line in fcarch.tmpl.h to match change in cache data.
236 Add x86-64 architecture and signature.
237 During test run, remove cache directory to avoid stale cache usage.
238 Add ppc architecture
239 Revert to original FcFontSetMatch algorithm to avoid losing fonts.
240 Rework cache files to use offsets for all data structures.
241 Fix build problems caused by cache rework.
242 FcCharSetSerialize was using wrong offset for leaves. Make fc-cat work.
243 Rework Object name database to unify typechecking and object lookup.
244 Skip broken caches. Cache files are auto-written, don't rewrite in fc-cache.
245 Fix fc-cat again. Sigh.
246 Use intptr_t instead of off_t inside FcCache structure.
247 Serialized value lists were only including one value.
248 Automatically remove invalid cache files.
249 With no args, fc-cat now dumps all directories.
250 Revert ABI changes from version 2.3
251 Change $(pkgcachedir) to $(fc_cachedir) in fc-cat and fc-cache Makefile.am
252 Allow FcTypeLangSet to match either FcTypeLangSet or FcTypeString.
253 Remove stale architecture signatures.
254 Pass directory information around in FcCache structure. Freeze charsets.
255 Fix fc-lang to use new charset freezer API.
256 Fontset pattern references are relative to fontset, not array.
257 Add some ignores
258 Only rebuild caches for system fonts at make install time.
259 Fix memory leaks in fc-cache directory cleaning code.
260 Add @EXPAT_LIBS@ to Libs.private in fontconfig.pc (bug 7683)
261 Avoid #warning directives on non-GCC compilers. (bug 7683)
262 Chinese/Macau needs the Hong Kong orthography instead of Taiwan (bug 7884)
263 Add Assamese orthography (as.orth). Bug #8050
264 Really only rebuild caches for system fonts at make install time.
265 Fonts matching lang not territory should satisfy sort pattern lang.
266 Prefer Bitstream Vera to DejaVu families.
267 Guess that mac roman names with lots of high bits are actually SJIS.
268 Document FC_DEBUG values (bug 6393). Document name \ escape syntax.
269 Move Free family names to bottom of respective aliases. (bug 7429)
270 Unify directory canonicalization into FcStrAddFilename.
271 Allow font caches to contain newer version numbers
272 Add FcMatchScan to resolve Delicious font matching issues (bug #6769)
273 Fix missing initialization/destruction of new 'scan' target subst list.
274 Don't segfault when string values can't be parsed as charsets or langsets.
275 Using uninitialized (and wrong) variable in FcStrCopyFilename.
276 Oops; missed the 60-delicious.conf file.
277
278 Patrick Lam:
279 Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
280 2006-04-27 Paolo Borelli (pborelli@katamail.com) reviewed by: plam
281 2006-05-31 Yong Li (rigel863@gmail.com) reviewed by: plam, Bedhad Esfahbod
282 2006-07-19 Jon Burgess (jburgess@uklinux.net) reviewed by: plam
283 2006-08-04 Keith Packard (keithp@keithp.com) reviewed by: plam
284
285 2.3.95
286
287 Match 'Standard Symbols L' for 'Symbol'. Add URW fonts as aliases for
288 all of the PostScript fonts. (reported by Miguel Rodriguez). Fix a
289 number of Coverity defects (Frederic Crozat). Speed up FcFontSort
290 (fix suggested by Kenichi Handa). Fix error with charsets. Survive
291 missing docbook2pdf. Compile on HP-UX, AIX, SGI and Windows (Cygwin,
292 MinGW). Fix intel compiler warnings. Fix multiarch support (don't
293 destroy multiarch files!) Require pkg-config. (Thanks Behdad; better
294 solution wanted for libxml2 detection!) Fix typos in orth files and
295 add orth for Lingala (reported by Denis Jacquerye). Remove debian/
296 directory. Add a configuration file that disables hinting for the
297 Lohit Gujarati font (since the hinting distorts some glyphs quite
298 badly). Sort directory entries while scanning them from disk;
299 prevents Heisenbugs due to file ordering in a directory (due to Egmont
300 Koblinger). Fix Wine's problem with finding fonts. (Reported by
301 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer.) Fix the issues with GNU libiconv vs. libc
302 iconv (which especially appear on Solarii); patch by Behdad Esfahbod,
303 approach suggested by Tim Mooney.
304
305 2.3.94
306
307 fc-cat can take directories as input and creates old-style fonts.cache
308 listings.
309 fc-cache takes -r --really-force which blows away all old caches and
310 regenerates.
311 Robustness fixes, integer overflow fixes (notably to cache handling
312 code), toast broken global cache files.
313 Change binary format to make it compatible with static langset
314 information (thanks to Takashi Iwai).
315 Open hashed caches before fonts.cache-2 (Takashi Iwai).
316 Fix FcFontSetMatch's algorithm, which used to unjustly kill fonts for
317 not declaring certain elements (Takashi Iwai).
318 Fix matching bug when multiple elements match; don't use
319 the sum of all scores, but the best score (James Su).
320 Make fc-lang more friendly to Windows systems.
321 Remove archaic chars from Georgian charset; add Euro character to
322 charsets for European languages.
323 Fix treatment of broken PCF fonts that don't declare family names.
324 Pass O_BINARY to open if appropriate (reported by Doodle).
325 Normalize font directories to the form in which they appear in
326 config files.
327 Add a record of the cached directory to the cache file.
328 Perf optimizations (Dirk Mueller; some reported by Michael Meeks.)
329 Don't loop infinitely on recursive symlinks.
330 Make 'make distcheck' work with automake 1.6.3.
331 Replace 'stamp' target with mkinstalldirs.
332 Don't stop scanning if a directory in fonts.conf doesn't exist,
333 because subsequent directories might exist.
334 Put directory names into global cache (reported by Ronny V. Vindenes).
335 Treat zh-hk fonts differently from zh-tw fonts. This patch may cause
336 fontconfig to treat A-X fonts differently from A-Y fonts; please mail
337 the fontconfig list if this causes any problems.
338 Fix for unaligned memory accesses (Andreas Schwab).
339 Fix treatment of cache directory as read from cache file; don't use
340 string equality to determine if we have the right file, use inode
341 equality.
342 Properly skip past dir caches that contain zero fonts, as occurs
343 in global caches (reported by Mike Fabian).
344 Print out full pathname in fc-match -v (reported by Frederic Crozat).
345 Fix bug where fc-match crashes when given __DUMMY__ property to
346 match on.
347
348 2.3.93
349
350 Create cache files in /var/cache/fontconfig with hashed filenames, if
351 possible, for added FHS compliance.
352 Make fc-cat read both per-directory and global cache files.
353 Add config file for Persian fonts from Sharif FarsiWeb, Inc.
354 Major performance improvements by Dirk Mueller, Stephen Kulow, and Michael Matz at SuSE: in particular, speed up FcFontSetMatch, and inline many functions.
355 Fix treatment of globs in config files, broken since 2.3.2 and discovered by Mathias Clasen.
356 Don't use freetype internal headers (patch by Matthias Clasen).
357 Further space improvements: create langsets statically, so that they can live in .rodata.
358 Properly align mmapped data structures to make e.g. ia64 happy.
359 Bug fixes.
360
361 2.3.92
362
363 Fix corrupted caches bugs from 2.3.91 (reported by Mike Fabian).
364 Store only basename in the cache, reconstitute on demand
365 (reported by James Cloos).
366 Change the rule for artificial emboldening in fonts.conf.in. This
367 enables the support for artificial emboldening included in cairo
368 (patch by Zhe Su).
369 Add FC_EMBEDDED_BITMAP object type to tell Xft/Cairo whether
370 to load embedded bitmaps or not (patch by Jinghua Luo).
371 Fix GCC4 warnings (some by Behdad Esfahbod).
372 Support localized font family and style names; this has been reported
373 to break old apps like xfd, but modern (gtk+/qt/mozilla) apps work
374 fine (patch by Zhe Su).
375 Prevent fc-list from escaping strings when printing them (reported by
376 Matthias Clasen).
377 Add valist sentinel markup for FcObjectSetBuild and
378 FcPatternBuild (patch by Marcus Meissner).
379 Add consts to variables so as to move arrays into .rodata (patch by
380 Ross Burton).
381 Modify config file to use Greek fonts before Asian fonts with
382 Greek glyphs. (patch by Simos Xenitellis).
383 Use libtool -no-undefined flag on all platforms (patch by Christian
384 Biesinger).
385
386 2.3.91
387
388 Use libxml2 if requested or if expat not available. (Mathias Hasselmann)
389 Fix multi-arch cache files: compute the position for the
390 block to be added using info from OrigFile, not NewFile. (plam)
391 Cast results of sizeof() to unsigned int to get rid of
392 warnings on x86_64 (reported by Matthias Clasen).
393 Use FcAtomic to rewrite cache files; don't unlink the fonts.cache-2
394 file even if there's no data to write; just write an empty cache file.
395 (Reported by Lubos Lunak)
396 Allocate room for the subdirectory names in each directory cache.
397 (Reported by James Cloos)
398
399 2.3.90
400
401 Development release of mmap patch: load pattern information
402 directly from cache files. (Patrick Lam)
403
404 2.3.2
405
406 Patch memory leaks in using iconv. (Reported by Chris Capoccia)
407 Patch memory leaks in fc-cache. (Reported by Chris Capoccia)
408 Fetch bitmap glyphs to get widths during font evaluation. (keithp)
409 Share strings through FcObjectStaticName (Ross Burton)
410 Windows build updates (Tor Lillqvist)
411
412 2.3.1
413
414 Be more careful about broken GSUB/GPOS tables (Manish Singh)
415 Include debian packaging stuff in CVS (Josselin Mouette)
416 Add more conf.d examples (Keith Packard)
417 Make manuals build again (Keith Packard)
418 Johap -> Johab (Funda Wang)
419
420 2.3.0
421
422 Fix memory leak of patterns rejected by configuration (#2518)
423
424 Create prototype /etc/fonts/conf.d directory and populate it with a few
425 sample files. These samples are unused as the file names don't start with
426 numbers.
427
428 Update documentation.
429
430 2.2.99
431
432 Verify cache for FC_FILE and FC_FAMILY in every entry (#2219)
433
434 Update blanks list from recent Unicode docs (#86)
435
436 Various small build fixes (#280, #2278,
437
438 Documentation fixes (#2085, #2284, #2285)
439
440 Add polite typechecking to config file loader (#229)
441
442 2.2.98
443
444 Share object name strings (Michael Meeks)
445
446 Eliminate a couple of codepoints from Russian orthography (John Thacker)
447
448 Add synthetic emboldening configuration changes (Jakub Pavelek)
449
450 Change FcFontSetSort to ignore language after fonts with the requested
451 languages have been found. (Owen Taylor)
452
453 Add some RedHat font configuration changes (Owen Tayler).
454
455 Add full Unicode case folding support to case-ignoring string functions
456 (Keith Packard)
457
458 Remove Han characters from Korean orthography (Tor Andersson)
459
460 2.2.97
461
462 Fc-cache sleeps before exiting to ensure filesystem timestamps are well
463 ordered.
464
465 Added Punjai orthography.
466
467 The timestamp in fonts.conf is gone now. Too many problems.
468
469 The default font path includes all of the X fonts; use selectfont/rejectfont
470 to eliminate bitmaps, as shown in the sample local.conf file.
471
472 <include> configuration elements may now reference a directory. Files
473 in that directory matching [0-9]* are loaded in UTF-8 collating sequence order.
474
475 <selectfont> configuration added to control which fonts are used.
476
477 fontformat font pattern elements built from the FT_Get_X11_Font_Format
478 function in newer versions of FreeType.
479
480 'capability' list constructed from gsub/gpos and silf values in TrueType
481 files.
482
483 Multi-lingual names (style, family, fullname) extracted and stored with
484 parallel <foo>lang properties marking language.
485
486 2.2.96
487
488 Fix FcConfigUpToDate to actually check all font directories and eliminate
489 a typo which completely prevented it from working (Lubos Lunak
490 <l.lunak@suse.cz>)
491
492 Remove comma at end of FcResult enum definition for picky compilers.
493
494 2.2.95
495
496 Add FcResultOutOfMemory so FcFontSetMatch can return accurate error.
497
498 Replace MIN/MAX/ABS macros which happened to be in old FreeType releases
499 with FC_MIN/FC_MAX/FC_ABS macros owned by fontconfig.
500
501 2.2.94
502
503 The 2.2.93 release was prepared with a broken libtool which created
504 the shared library without the '.so' in the file names.
505
506 2.2.93
507
508 This is the third prerelease of fontconfig 2.3. Significant changes from
509 2.2.92 are:
510
511 o Use new FreeType #include syntax
512 o use y_ppem field instead of 'height' in bitmap sizes rec -
513 FreeType changed the semantics. Still uses height for
514 older versions of FreeType
515 o Don't construct program manuals unless docbook is available
516
517 2.2.92
518
519 o make distcheck work
520
521 2.2.91
522
523 o Switch to SGML manuals
524 o Add FC_DUAL width spacing value
525 o Add FcFini to close out fontconfig and release all memory
526
527 2.2
528
529 This is the third public release of fontconfig, a font configuration and
530 customization library. Fontconfig is designed to locate fonts within the
531 system and select them according to requirements specified by applications.
532
533 Fontconfig is not a rasterization library, nor does it impose a particular
534 rasterization library on the application. The X-specific library
535 'Xft' uses fontconfig along with freetype to specify and rasterize fonts.
536
537 Keith Packard
538 keithp@keithp.com