[Fontconfig] fontconfig: Branch 'master'

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Mon Apr 23 19:10:42 PDT 2012


On 04/23/2012 10:05 PM, Akira TAGOH wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Nicolas Mailhot
> <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
>> You also have all the old crap non-standard fonts which have been embedded in
>> pdf documents (and continue to be because some pdf generators are expensive
>> and people try to keep them forever), will those documents still work if
>> fontconfig stops supporting cmap ?
> 
> That may depends on the implementation. poppler seems not using
> FcFreeTypeQueryFace() at least, which will be affected by that change.

Off the top of my head, PDF fonts never use cmap, so they should be fine.  I
may be wrong though.

b


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