[Fontconfig] Caching Postscript names

[Isaiah Beerbower]

On 6/3/08, Isaiah Beerbower <public at ipaqah.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 12:18 -0400, Isaiah Beerbower wrote:
>>
>>> I am working on GNUstep's (http://www.gnustep.org/) font support. One
>>> of GNUstep's goals is to implement the OpenStep specification
>>> (http://www.gnustep.org/resources/OpenStepSpec.pdf.gz). Fontconfig is
>>> already being used by GNUstep, however, in order to properly implement
>>> the OpenStep standard  the Postscript name should be used to uniquely
>>> reference a font. Right now GNUstep is using the full font name,
>>> however, it would be better if the Postscript name was cached so that
>>> it could be used instead. So my final question is: what are the pros
>>> and cons to adding the Postscript name to the properties which
>>> Fontconfig caches?
>>>
>>> I've included a patch (below) which adds the functionality.
>>
>> That seems fine, however note that this won't let you search for fonts
>> by postscript name. If you want to do that, you can modify the font
>> matching code to look for postscript names in the pattern.
>>
>
> Yes, I would want it to be searchable. I'll send a new patch as soon
> as I have it ready.
>

And here it is (attached).

Thanks,
- Isaiah Beerbower

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