Re: [ft-devel] Something in 2.6.4 broke my windows

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> Just grep'ed through /etc/fonts/conf.d/* , fontconfig allows one to
>> switching hinting on/off per font, as well as disabling the use of
>> embedded bitmaps, again, per font.
> 
> I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how fontconfig
> works.  This library is only used to find a best matching font for a
> given set of constraints.  Essentially, it returns a string that holds
> a font's file name, together with auxiliary information the
> application might find useful.  However, it is the application's job
> then to process this font name with a call to `FT_Open_Face'!  In
> other words, fontconfig has *zero* control how the application loads
> the font.  It just provides a suggestion, nothing more.
> 
> The `switch hinting on/off' configuration and similar parameters in
> fontconfig influence the auxiliary information returned together with
> the matching font, nothing more.  Again, it's the application's job to
> adhere to this data while calling `FT_Open_Face'.

And even more important: It's also the application's job to call
`FT_Init_FreeType' to get a proper `FT_Library' object, and fontconfig
doesn't provide any hints how to control FreeType modules.


    Werner