[Fontconfig] Difficulty finding a font file through the libraries

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at geek-central.gen.nz
Sun Oct 31 21:00:08 UTC 2021


On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 00:46:29 -0500, Michael Brennen wrote:

> So the font matching problem is somewhere in gs, not fontconfig.
> Thanks for the responses; I hope knowing that gs’s use of fontconfig
> is limited comes in useful.

Just wondering, is it essential that you render PostScript has part of
your pipeline? If not, there are other options for generating graphic
images, with more direct control over what fonts are used. Like
something based on Cairo <https://www.cairographics.org/>.


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