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   1                         Fontconfig
   2         Font configuration and customization library
   3                       Version 2.3.2
   4                          2005-9-23
   5
   6 Check INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
   7 Report bugs to https://bugs.freedesktop.org in the fontconfig module.
   8
   9 2.3.90
  10
  11 Development release of mmap patch: load pattern information
  12 directly from cache files.  (Patrick Lam)
  13
  14 2.3.2
  15
  16 Patch memory leaks in using iconv.  (Reported by Chris Capoccia)
  17 Patch memory leaks in fc-cache. (Reported by Chris Capoccia)
  18 Fetch bitmap glyphs to get widths during font evaluation. (keithp)
  19 Share strings through FcObjectStaticName (Ross Burton)
  20 Windows build updates (Tor Lillqvist)
  21
  22 2.3.1
  23
  24 Be more careful about broken GSUB/GPOS tables (Manish Singh)
  25 Include debian packaging stuff in CVS (Josselin Mouette)
  26 Add more conf.d examples (Keith Packard)
  27 Make manuals build again (Keith Packard)
  28 Johap -> Johab (Funda Wang)
  29
  30 2.3.0
  31
  32 Fix memory leak of patterns rejected by configuration (#2518)
  33
  34 Create prototype /etc/fonts/conf.d directory and populate it with a few
  35 sample files.  These samples are unused as the file names don't start with
  36 numbers.
  37
  38 Update documentation.
  39
  40 2.2.99
  41
  42 Verify cache for FC_FILE and FC_FAMILY in every entry (#2219)
  43
  44 Update blanks list from recent Unicode docs (#86)
  45
  46 Various small build fixes (#280, #2278,
  47
  48 Documentation fixes (#2085, #2284, #2285)
  49
  50 Add polite typechecking to config file loader (#229)
  51
  52 2.2.98
  53
  54 Share object name strings (Michael Meeks)
  55
  56 Eliminate a couple of codepoints from Russian orthography (John Thacker)
  57
  58 Add synthetic emboldening configuration changes (Jakub Pavelek)
  59
  60 Change FcFontSetSort to ignore language after fonts with the requested
  61 languages have been found. (Owen Taylor)
  62
  63 Add some RedHat font configuration changes (Owen Tayler).
  64
  65 Add full Unicode case folding support to case-ignoring string functions
  66 (Keith Packard)
  67
  68 Remove Han characters from Korean orthography (Tor Andersson)
  69
  70 2.2.97
  71
  72 Fc-cache sleeps before exiting to ensure filesystem timestamps are well
  73 ordered.
  74
  75 Added Punjai orthography.
  76
  77 The timestamp in fonts.conf is gone now.  Too many problems.
  78
  79 The default font path includes all of the X fonts; use selectfont/rejectfont
  80 to eliminate bitmaps, as shown in the sample local.conf file.
  81
  82 <include> configuration elements may now reference a directory.  Files
  83 in that directory matching [0-9]* are loaded in UTF-8 collating sequence order.
  84
  85 <selectfont> configuration added to control which fonts are used.
  86
  87 fontformat font pattern elements built from the FT_Get_X11_Font_Format
  88 function in newer versions of FreeType.
  89
  90 'capability' list constructed from gsub/gpos and silf values in TrueType
  91 files.
  92
  93 Multi-lingual names (style, family, fullname) extracted and stored with
  94 parallel <foo>lang properties marking language.
  95
  96 2.2.96
  97
  98 Fix FcConfigUpToDate to actually check all font directories and eliminate
  99 a typo which completely prevented it from working (Lubos Lunak
 100 <l.lunak@suse.cz>)
 101
 102 Remove comma at end of FcResult enum definition for picky compilers.
 103
 104 2.2.95
 105
 106 Add FcResultOutOfMemory so FcFontSetMatch can return accurate error.
 107
 108 Replace MIN/MAX/ABS macros which happened to be in old FreeType releases
 109 with FC_MIN/FC_MAX/FC_ABS macros owned by fontconfig.
 110
 111 2.2.94
 112
 113 The 2.2.93 release was prepared with a broken libtool which created
 114 the shared library without the '.so' in the file names.
 115
 116 2.2.93
 117
 118 This is the third prerelease of fontconfig 2.3.  Significant changes from
 119 2.2.92 are:
 120
 121  o      Use new FreeType #include syntax
 122  o      use y_ppem field instead of 'height' in bitmap sizes rec -
 123         FreeType changed the semantics.  Still uses height for
 124         older versions of FreeType
 125  o      Don't construct program manuals unless docbook is available
 126
 127 2.2.92
 128
 129  o      make distcheck work
 130
 131 2.2.91
 132
 133  o      Switch to SGML manuals
 134  o      Add FC_DUAL width spacing value
 135  o      Add FcFini to close out fontconfig and release all memory
 136
 137 2.2
 138
 139 This is the third public release of fontconfig, a font configuration and
 140 customization library.  Fontconfig is designed to locate fonts within the
 141 system and select them according to requirements specified by applications.
 142
 143 Fontconfig is not a rasterization library, nor does it impose a particular
 144 rasterization library on the application.  The X-specific library
 145 'Xft' uses fontconfig along with freetype to specify and rasterize fonts.
 146
 147 Keith Packard
 148 keithp@keithp.com