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title="NEW - Please provide configure option to compile without fontconfig"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98043">98043</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Please provide configure option to compile without fontconfig
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<th>Product</th>
<td>poppler
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>enhancement
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>general
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>poppler-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>freedesktop@oc.airpost.net
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<pre>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.</pre>
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