[Fontconfig] Composite Font Representation

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 08/27/2012 03:01 AM, Akira TAGOH wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:
>> Actually I don't agree.  I think this fits better into fontconfig: on the
>> matching / enumeration side of things, the CFR looks as if it's one font, but
>> it in fact expands to multiple fonts.  It's very similar to what 'sans', or
>> 'arial' mean right now, or even 'Droid Sans'.
> 
> Sure. but only it is. the important part of this specification IMHO
> is, it provides a virtual font and has various parameters as a font,
> which allows to override something in an real font. given that we do
> support CFR in fontconfig, that would means we need to wrap up
> FreeType APIs or reimplement similar thing to take effects them in the
> worst case because we might not use FT_Face as is. this is why I think
> that may be better getting involved with FreeType or needing some
> hooks in FreeType to do what you said, which fontconfig is
> responsible. I think we need to update both for CFR.

I agree.  We wouldn't be able to provide unified font metrics for the CFR, but
other than that the rest should be easy to provide given our current APIs.


>>> Aside from that we may need to add the postscript name in the cache to
>>> allow on the lookup since the CFR uses it rather than the family name.
>>
>> That would be useful for PDF viewers regardless of this.
> 
> Yes, I think we have an RFE for that in bz. so that would be a good
> opportunity to support it.

Right.

behdad