[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 98043] New: Please provide configure option to compile without fontconfig

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98043

            Bug ID: 98043
           Summary: Please provide configure option to compile without
                    fontconfig
           Product: poppler
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: general
          Assignee: poppler-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: freedesktop at oc.airpost.net

Please make it possible to compile poppler without fontconfig.

Fontconfig is quite a large dependency when you need to bundle it with your
application (this is for OSX), in particular since it also pulls in libexpat
and probably some other things.

It is also only used in borderline cases.  Since PDF 1.5, PDF fonts are
strongly recommended to embed all fonts - so fontconfig is actually only useful
for ill-formed PDF files.

My application uses poppler only for parsing PDF files and provides its own
renderer, so it's somewhat annoying that I need to bundle a large library
that's completely useless or hack the poppler build process myself.

Note that Freetype supports building without fontconfig since 2009 (see
#19253), so this has no impact on the dependency on Freetype - which is really
all you need to render fonts embedded in the PDF file.

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