[Fontconfig] fc-cache doesn't detect some PCF fonts

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Thu Apr 21 08:26:07 EST 2005


On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 22:01 +0200, Andrei Badea wrote:
> I have a couple of PCF fonts which fc-cache doesn't detect:
> 
> fc-cache: "/usr/local/share/fonts": skipping, 0 fonts, 2 dirs
> fc-cache: "/usr/local/share/fonts/100dpi": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
> fc-cache: "/usr/local/share/fonts/75dpi": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs

FreeType only supports ISO 8859-1 and Unicode encoded PCF fonts; others
require application-level transcoding support which isn't in Fontconfig.

-keith

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