Introduction to Fontconfig
The Fontconfig package is a library for configuring and customizing font access.
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Download (HTTP): http://fontconfig.org/release/fontconfig-2.2.3.tar.gz
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Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/linux/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/fontconfig-2.2.3.tar.gz
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Download MD5 sum: 2466a797d645cda5eb466080fdaec416
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Download size: 747 KB
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Estimated disk space required: 10 MB
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Estimated build time: 0.18 SBU
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Note
The numbering system of Fontconfig is unusual. The beta versions of the package are numbered with a 9x in the last portion of the release number. This means that 2.2.96 is a beta release and the most current release is of the form 2.2.3
Installation of Fontconfig
Install Fontconfig by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc --disable-docs &&
make &&
make install
Command explanations
--disable-docs: This switch avoids building the documentation. If you wish to build the documentation using DocBook-utils, you may need to remove the OpenSP catalog definitions from the system SGML catalogs. Use the following command before building the package to accomplish this:
sed -i.orig \
-e "/CATALOG \/etc\/sgml\/OpenSP-1.5.1.cat/d" \
/etc/sgml/catalog \
/etc/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat
Configuring Fontconfig
The configuration file for Fontconfig is /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. Generally you do not want to edit this file. To put a new font directory in the configuration, update the /etc/fonts/local.conf file with your local information. The default location of fonts in Fontconfig is:
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/usr/share/fonts
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~/.fonts
Note
X also includes an internal (and older) version of Fontconfig and unless it is explicitly disabled when building XFree86, the internal version is created leaving two slightly incompatible libraries on your system. It is recommended that you only install one version.
Contents
The Fontconfig package contains the libfontconfig library, fc-cache, and fc-list.
Description
Last updated on 2005-02-07 14:16:21 -0700