[poppler] Fontconfig patch

[Albert Astals Cid]

Well, i can add a configure check for fontconfig and if fontconfig is present 
use my code and if not, use the old one. 

Albert

A Dissabte 16 Juliol 2005 11:37, Stefan Kleine Stegemann va escriure:
> Hi,
>
> On 7/15/05, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> > Ok guys, this patch is both somewhat big and important so have a careful
> > look at it.
> >
> > Rationale of the patch, it has been discussed in the list that using
> > hardcoded fonts as xpdf does is a bad thing. This patches tries to
> > address that problems.
>
> Hmm, I think I will have a problem with PopplerKit
> (http://homepage.gna.org/gsimageapps). PopplerKit is a Cocoa/GNUstep
> framwork based on poppler. Your patch looks like as it is impossible
> now to define font subsititutions explicitly (this is what PopplerKit
> does). For GNUstep on Linux/BSD Systems won't be a big problem since
> fontconfig should be installed on amlost every system today. But it is
> a problem on OSX. Normally, people don't have fontconfig installed and
> they almost won't install it just to use a PDF reader that is based on
> PopplerKit. I tried compile fontconfig statically agains the
> PopplerKit framework but the problem is that fontconfig uses hardcoded
> paths to find it's fonts.conf init file. So if there is no possiblity
> to tell fontconfig what fonts.conf to use, I will have a big problem.
>
> So, does anyone know how to tell fontconfig what fonts.conf file to
> use at runtime?
> Can you probably preserver the current behavior for the poppler
> library and just ADD the new stuff without removing the old? From my
> point of view, this would be the best solution.
>
> thanks
> Stefan Kleine Stegemann

	
	
		
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