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author | Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> | 2003-05-27 20:56:15 +0000 |
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committer | Owen Taylor <otaylor@src.gnome.org> | 2003-05-27 20:56:15 +0000 |
commit | 93a41fbb72a6758f899e45f1740a1182a9edb705 (patch) | |
tree | e6aa30262d36b2cfd91398c5e0700dd2c4ae82f1 /README | |
parent | cae7211594d3c2b8c0aacee1f067e53c0e9823ba (diff) | |
download | pango-93a41fbb72a6758f899e45f1740a1182a9edb705.tar.gz |
Clean up so that tests for Xft/FreeType are only run when we find
Tue May 27 16:51:32 2003 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>
* configure.in: Clean up so that tests for Xft/FreeType
are only run when we find fontconfig. (#112027,
Tim Mooney)
* README: Rewrite the text about fontconfig dependencies
to be clearer and not to have stale links to
http://keithp.com/fonts/. (#112027, Tim Mooney)
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 10 deletions
@@ -33,19 +33,22 @@ The recommended font backend for X in Pango-1.2 is the Xft backend which uses version 2 of the Xft library to manage client side fonts. Benefits of the Xft backend include, performance, support for OpenType fonts, and antialiasing. Version 2 of -Xft is available from http://keithp.com/fonts/. The 'fcpackage' -tarball includes both Xft, and it's dependency, 'fontconfig'. -(see below.) +Xft is available from http://fontconfig.org/. Along with +Xft, you'll need to install its dependency fontconfig, and +possibly also the Xrender library, if that doesn't come with +your system. Both of these libraries are available from +the same place as fontconfig. Note that an earlier version of Xft is shipped with version of XFree86 up to 4.2. This version does not work with Pango-1.2; -Pango-1.2 requires version 2 of Xft. - -Both Xft and the optional PangoFT2 backend look up fonts via -the fontconfig library, available along with Xft in the -'fcpackage' tarball from http://keithp.com/fonts. They -also require at least version 2.0.9 of the FreeType -library. (http://www.freetype.org) +Pango-1.2 requires version 2 of Xft, which is present in XFree86-4.3. + +Both Xft and the optional PangoFT2 backend require the fontconfig +library (http://www.fontconfig.org) to look up fonts. At least version +2.0.9 of the FreeType font handling library (http://www.freetype.org) +is also required. If fontconfig and FreeType are not found at +configure time, or FreeType is too old, then neither the Xft nor the +FT2 backend is will be built. After installing fontconfig, it may be necessary to edit the fonts.conf file, found at $(sysconfdir)/fonts/fonts.conf |