Re: [Freetype] Re: Suggested patch: bitmap fonts, foundry, family and fontconfig/Xft2

[Torgeir Veimo]

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 16:00, Mike FABIAN wrote:
> Juliusz Chroboczek <address@hidden> さんは書きました:
> 
> > MF> I believe it would be better if the family name which shows up via the
> > MF> fontconfig/Xft2 API reflected that and the fonts showed up as
> >
> > MF>     "Misc Fixed", "Sony Fixed", "Etl Fixed", etc...
> >
> > I believe this to be a bad idea -- the family names of Type 1 and BDF
> > versions of Adobe Courier will then differ.
> 
> That is one of the points of my idea. The Type1 version is still
> called "Courier" and the Bitmap version is called "Adobe Courier" and
> thus usually not selected, at least not by accident.
> 
> If the family names of the Type1 and BDF fonts of Courier, Times, and
> Helvetica are the same, you may get a bitmap font even if a scalable
> font of the same name is available.
> 
> > I believe that this is a fontconfig/Gnome bug, not something that
> > should be fixed at the FreeType level.
> 
> Then it is also a Qt/KDE bug. You cannot distinguish these fonts in
> the Qt/KDE font selection dialogs either.

Isn't this mostly for proving bitmap fonts to old style X11 programs,
which would select fonts using XLFD in any case, while removing the
bitmap font distribution from XFree86?

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Torgeir Veimo <address@hidden>