Re: [Devel] where are the fonts ???

[Keith Packard]

Around 9 o'clock on Sep 2, George Williams wrote:

> On linux (any system running X really) fonts are wherever they get put.

There is a new linux library (fontconfig) which you can use to locate 
fonts.

        http://fontconfig.org

(if that's not yet available, try http://nexp.cs.pdx.edu/fontconfig )

Fontconfig matches fonts using information supplied by the application, 
but it performs no rendering of any kind.  You can get the filename back 
from Fontconfig and hand it straight to FreeType as the Xft library does, 
or you can hand it to any other font consumer.

X uses this library for all client-side fonts which are replacing the old 
server-side fonts as fast as we can switch applications over.

Keith Packard        XFree86 Core Team        HP Cambridge Research Lab