README

   1                         Fontconfig
   2         Font configuration and customization library
   3                       Version 2.3.93
   4                          2005-12-12
   5
   6 Check INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
   7 Report bugs to https://bugs.freedesktop.org in the fontconfig module.
   8
   9 2.3.93
  10
  11 Create cache files in /var/cache/fontconfig with hashed filenames, if
  12 possible, for added FHS compliance.
  13 Make fc-cat read both per-directory and global cache files.
  14 Add config file for Persian fonts from Sharif FarsiWeb, Inc.
  15 Major performance improvements by Dirk Mueller, Stephen Kulow, and Michael Matz at SuSE: in particular, speed up FcFontSetMatch, and inline many functions.
  16 Fix treatment of globs in config files, broken since 2.3.2 and discovered by Mathias Clasen.
  17 Don't use freetype internal headers (patch by Matthias Clasen).
  18 Further space improvements: create langsets statically, so that they can live in .rodata.
  19 Properly align mmapped data structures to make e.g. ia64 happy.
  20 Bug fixes.
  21
  22 2.3.92
  23
  24 Fix corrupted caches bugs from 2.3.91 (reported by Mike Fabian).
  25 Store only basename in the cache, reconstitute on demand
  26 (reported by James Cloos).
  27 Change the rule for artificial emboldening in fonts.conf.in.  This
  28 enables the support for artificial emboldening included in cairo
  29 (patch by Zhe Su).
  30 Add FC_EMBEDDED_BITMAP object type to tell Xft/Cairo whether
  31 to load embedded bitmaps or not (patch by Jinghua Luo).
  32 Fix GCC4 warnings (some by Behdad Esfahbod).
  33 Support localized font family and style names; this has been reported
  34 to break old apps like xfd, but modern (gtk+/qt/mozilla) apps work
  35 fine (patch by Zhe Su).
  36 Prevent fc-list from escaping strings when printing them (reported by
  37 Matthias Clasen).
  38 Add valist sentinel markup for FcObjectSetBuild and
  39 FcPatternBuild (patch by Marcus Meissner).
  40 Add consts to variables so as to move arrays into .rodata (patch by
  41 Ross Burton).
  42 Modify config file to use Greek fonts before Asian fonts with
  43 Greek glyphs. (patch by Simos Xenitellis).
  44 Use libtool -no-undefined flag on all platforms (patch by Christian
  45 Biesinger).
  46
  47 2.3.91
  48
  49 Use libxml2 if requested or if expat not available. (Mathias Hasselmann)
  50 Fix multi-arch cache files: compute the position for the
  51 block to be added using info from OrigFile, not NewFile. (plam)
  52 Cast results of sizeof() to unsigned int to get rid of
  53 warnings on x86_64 (reported by Matthias Clasen).
  54 Use FcAtomic to rewrite cache files; don't unlink the fonts.cache-2
  55 file even if there's no data to write; just write an empty cache file.
  56 (Reported by Lubos Lunak)
  57 Allocate room for the subdirectory names in each directory cache.
  58 (Reported by James Cloos)
  59
  60 2.3.90
  61
  62 Development release of mmap patch: load pattern information
  63 directly from cache files.  (Patrick Lam)
  64
  65 2.3.2
  66
  67 Patch memory leaks in using iconv.  (Reported by Chris Capoccia)
  68 Patch memory leaks in fc-cache. (Reported by Chris Capoccia)
  69 Fetch bitmap glyphs to get widths during font evaluation. (keithp)
  70 Share strings through FcObjectStaticName (Ross Burton)
  71 Windows build updates (Tor Lillqvist)
  72
  73 2.3.1
  74
  75 Be more careful about broken GSUB/GPOS tables (Manish Singh)
  76 Include debian packaging stuff in CVS (Josselin Mouette)
  77 Add more conf.d examples (Keith Packard)
  78 Make manuals build again (Keith Packard)
  79 Johap -> Johab (Funda Wang)
  80
  81 2.3.0
  82
  83 Fix memory leak of patterns rejected by configuration (#2518)
  84
  85 Create prototype /etc/fonts/conf.d directory and populate it with a few
  86 sample files.  These samples are unused as the file names don't start with
  87 numbers.
  88
  89 Update documentation.
  90
  91 2.2.99
  92
  93 Verify cache for FC_FILE and FC_FAMILY in every entry (#2219)
  94
  95 Update blanks list from recent Unicode docs (#86)
  96
  97 Various small build fixes (#280, #2278,
  98
  99 Documentation fixes (#2085, #2284, #2285)
 100
 101 Add polite typechecking to config file loader (#229)
 102
 103 2.2.98
 104
 105 Share object name strings (Michael Meeks)
 106
 107 Eliminate a couple of codepoints from Russian orthography (John Thacker)
 108
 109 Add synthetic emboldening configuration changes (Jakub Pavelek)
 110
 111 Change FcFontSetSort to ignore language after fonts with the requested
 112 languages have been found. (Owen Taylor)
 113
 114 Add some RedHat font configuration changes (Owen Tayler).
 115
 116 Add full Unicode case folding support to case-ignoring string functions
 117 (Keith Packard)
 118
 119 Remove Han characters from Korean orthography (Tor Andersson)
 120
 121 2.2.97
 122
 123 Fc-cache sleeps before exiting to ensure filesystem timestamps are well
 124 ordered.
 125
 126 Added Punjai orthography.
 127
 128 The timestamp in fonts.conf is gone now.  Too many problems.
 129
 130 The default font path includes all of the X fonts; use selectfont/rejectfont
 131 to eliminate bitmaps, as shown in the sample local.conf file.
 132
 133 <include> configuration elements may now reference a directory.  Files
 134 in that directory matching [0-9]* are loaded in UTF-8 collating sequence order.
 135
 136 <selectfont> configuration added to control which fonts are used.
 137
 138 fontformat font pattern elements built from the FT_Get_X11_Font_Format
 139 function in newer versions of FreeType.
 140
 141 'capability' list constructed from gsub/gpos and silf values in TrueType
 142 files.
 143
 144 Multi-lingual names (style, family, fullname) extracted and stored with
 145 parallel <foo>lang properties marking language.
 146
 147 2.2.96
 148
 149 Fix FcConfigUpToDate to actually check all font directories and eliminate
 150 a typo which completely prevented it from working (Lubos Lunak
 151 <l.lunak@suse.cz>)
 152
 153 Remove comma at end of FcResult enum definition for picky compilers.
 154
 155 2.2.95
 156
 157 Add FcResultOutOfMemory so FcFontSetMatch can return accurate error.
 158
 159 Replace MIN/MAX/ABS macros which happened to be in old FreeType releases
 160 with FC_MIN/FC_MAX/FC_ABS macros owned by fontconfig.
 161
 162 2.2.94
 163
 164 The 2.2.93 release was prepared with a broken libtool which created
 165 the shared library without the '.so' in the file names.
 166
 167 2.2.93
 168
 169 This is the third prerelease of fontconfig 2.3.  Significant changes from
 170 2.2.92 are:
 171
 172  o      Use new FreeType #include syntax
 173  o      use y_ppem field instead of 'height' in bitmap sizes rec -
 174         FreeType changed the semantics.  Still uses height for
 175         older versions of FreeType
 176  o      Don't construct program manuals unless docbook is available
 177
 178 2.2.92
 179
 180  o      make distcheck work
 181
 182 2.2.91
 183
 184  o      Switch to SGML manuals
 185  o      Add FC_DUAL width spacing value
 186  o      Add FcFini to close out fontconfig and release all memory
 187
 188 2.2
 189
 190 This is the third public release of fontconfig, a font configuration and
 191 customization library.  Fontconfig is designed to locate fonts within the
 192 system and select them according to requirements specified by applications.
 193
 194 Fontconfig is not a rasterization library, nor does it impose a particular
 195 rasterization library on the application.  The X-specific library
 196 'Xft' uses fontconfig along with freetype to specify and rasterize fonts.
 197
 198 Keith Packard
 199 keithp@keithp.com