Fontconfig contains two essential modules, the configuration module which builds an internal configuration from XML files and the matching module which accepts font patterns and returns the nearest matching font.
The configuration module consists of the FcConfig datatype, libexpat and FcConfigParse which walks over an XML tree and amends a configuration with data found within. From an external perspective, configuration of the library consists of generating a valid XML tree and feeding that to FcConfigParse. The only other mechanism provided to applications for changing the running configuration is to add fonts and directories to the list of application-provided font files.
The intent is to make font configurations relatively static, and shared by as many applications as possible. It is hoped that this will lead to more stable font selection when passing names from one application to another. XML was chosen as a configuration file format because it provides a format which is easy for external agents to edit while retaining the correct structure and syntax.
Font configuration is separate from font matching; applications needing to do their own matching can access the available fonts from the library and perform private matching. The intent is to permit applications to pick and choose appropriate functionality from the library instead of forcing them to choose between this library and a private configuration mechanism. The hope is that this will ensure that configuration of fonts for all applications can be centralized in one place. Centralizing font configuration will simplify and regularize font installation and customization.
While font patterns may contain essentially any properties, there are some well known properties with associated types. Fontconfig uses some of these properties for font matching and font completion. Others are provided as a convenience for the application's rendering mechanism.
Property Definitions Property C Preprocessor Symbol Type Description ---------------------------------------------------- family FC_FAMILY String Font family names familylang FC_FAMILYLANG String Language corresponding to each family name style FC_STYLE String Font style. Overrides weight and slant stylelang FC_STYLELANG String Language corresponding to each style name fullname FC_FULLNAME String Font face full name where different from family and family + style fullnamelang FC_FULLNAMELANG String Language corresponding to each fullname slant FC_SLANT Int Italic, oblique or roman weight FC_WEIGHT Int Light, medium, demibold, bold or black width FC_WIDTH Int Condensed, normal or expanded size FC_SIZE Double Point size aspect FC_ASPECT Double Stretches glyphs horizontally before hinting pixelsize FC_PIXEL_SIZE Double Pixel size spacing FC_SPACING Int Proportional, dual-width, monospace or charcell foundry FC_FOUNDRY String Font foundry name antialias FC_ANTIALIAS Bool Whether glyphs can be antialiased hintstyle FC_HINT_STYLE Int Automatic hinting style hinting FC_HINTING Bool Whether the rasterizer should use hinting verticallayout FC_VERTICAL_LAYOUT Bool Use vertical layout autohint FC_AUTOHINT Bool Use autohinter instead of normal hinter globaladvance FC_GLOBAL_ADVANCE Bool Use font global advance data (deprecated) file FC_FILE String The filename holding the font relative to the config's sysroot index FC_INDEX Int The index of the font within the file ftface FC_FT_FACE FT_Face Use the specified FreeType face object rasterizer FC_RASTERIZER String Which rasterizer is in use (deprecated) outline FC_OUTLINE Bool Whether the glyphs are outlines scalable FC_SCALABLE Bool Whether glyphs can be scaled dpi FC_DPI Double Target dots per inch rgba FC_RGBA Int unknown, rgb, bgr, vrgb, vbgr, none - subpixel geometry scale FC_SCALE Double Scale factor for point->pixel conversions (deprecated) minspace FC_MINSPACE Bool Eliminate leading from line spacing charset FC_CHARSET CharSet Unicode chars encoded by the font lang FC_LANG LangSet Set of RFC-3066-style languages this font supports fontversion FC_FONTVERSION Int Version number of the font capability FC_CAPABILITY String List of layout capabilities in the font fontformat FC_FONTFORMAT String String name of the font format embolden FC_EMBOLDEN Bool Rasterizer should synthetically embolden the font embeddedbitmap FC_EMBEDDED_BITMAP Bool Use the embedded bitmap instead of the outline decorative FC_DECORATIVE Bool Whether the style is a decorative variant lcdfilter FC_LCD_FILTER Int Type of LCD filter namelang FC_NAMELANG String Language name to be used for the default value of familylang, stylelang and fullnamelang fontfeatures FC_FONT_FEATURES String List of extra feature tags in OpenType to be enabled prgname FC_PRGNAME String Name of the running program hash FC_HASH String SHA256 hash value of the font data with "sha256:" prefix (deprecated) postscriptname FC_POSTSCRIPT_NAME String Font name in PostScript symbol FC_SYMBOL Bool Whether font uses MS symbol-font encoding color FC_COLOR Bool Whether any glyphs have color fontvariations FC_FONT_VARIATIONS String comma-separated string of axes in variable font variable FC_VARIABLE Bool Whether font is Variable Font fonthashint FC_FONT_HAS_HINT Bool Whether font has hinting order FC_ORDER Int Order number of the font |
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