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Fontconfig is a library for configuring and customizing font access.

Fontconfig is a library for configuring and customizing font access.

cf. http://freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/front.html

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Brew install failing on OS X - possibly something to do with new XCode

I'm trying to do a brew install of fontconfig on OS X 10.8.3 and I'm being thrown with a nasty error. I have XCode 4.6.1 installed. $ brew install fontconfig ==> Installing fontconfig dependency: pkg-config ==> Downloading…
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How to fix Fontconfig warning - unknown elements error

When I run "emacs Makefile" on a file I have made, the file opens, but I get the following in the terminal: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so: undefined symbol: g_date_time_format_iso8601 Failed to load module:…
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How can I generate a PDF with custom fonts using AWS Lambda?

I have an AWS Lambda function that generates PDFs using the html-pdf library with custom fonts. At first, I imported my fonts externally from Google Fonts, but then the PDF's size has enlarged by ten times. So I tried to import my fonts locally…
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Phantom JS bad kerning custom fonts on lambda

I am running html-pdf to generate a PDF via nodejs using phantomJS and running it on aws lambda. I have custom fonts, and referencing them with path in css (src: url('path/fonts.ttf'); was causing the pdf to render as one large image and the…
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Could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" on Archlinux (Write! AppImage)

Trying to install the Write! AppImage on Arch Linux with qt5 installed, freetype2 2.9.1 and fontconfig 2:2.13.1+12+g5f5ec56-1 [levi@astize Write!]$ ./write This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin…
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How to perform glyph substitution with Freetype, Harfbuzz and Fontconfig

I am currently implementing font rendering in McCLIM using Freetype, Harfbuzz and Fontconfig. As long as I pick the correct font, I can get text to render very nicely using these libraries. My main problem right now is how to deal with missing…
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Force fontconfig use specific font for given glyphs

Is it possible? I use i3bar status line and want it to display some unicode glyphs, but some of them cause the whole text be vertically misaligned and thus cropped: In this particular example the speaker glyph causes this. How do I force fontconfig…
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Bash. Passing a variable containing spaces

I am using dmenu list selection tool on linux. Let's assume my typical invocation goes like that: ls | dmenu $DMENU_OPTIONS Settings from .dmenurc: DMENU_FN="Liberation:size=16" DMENU_OPTIONS="<...> -fn $DMENU_FN" Then, I have use some…
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How do I build Cairo/Harfbuzz?

Cairo has a dependency on FontConfig. FontConfig has a dependency on Freetype. I have built FreeType, but when I try to build FontConfig I get link errors as FreeType needs HarfBuzz. When I try to build Harfbuzz, it has a dependency on FreeType.…
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What is the purpose of fc-cache in fontconfig?

i went through the documentation of fontconfig and i could understand the purpose of fc-match and fc-list. I am not understanding what does fc-cache does? How does it help device to understand things related to fonts? Could anyone explain what is…
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Unable to configure font in XTerm

After a lot of mucking around Xterm, poring through reams of webpages I have thrown in the towel and realized that this isn't something I can figure out on my own. TrueType vs Bitmap Is the option xterm*font used to specify only bitmap fonts and is…
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What's the equivalent of xfontsel for fontconfig fonts?

I'm trying to draw a particular font in a particular style, using Xft and fontconfig. I know it's possible, because font-manager will let me preview it. (Terminus, in italics, FWIW.) However, I cannot seem to figure out the right font name to pass…
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Retrieving font path with wxFont and fontconfig

My name is Fabio and I'm really glad to meet your community! I faced a problem working fonts with wxPython, PIL and fontconfig. In the beginning I wanted to use PIL to write a text in a tiff image, and I used ImageFont.truetype to load the font in a…
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Cannot load default config file phantomjs

I installed phantomjs using ap-get on ubuntu, when I try to get the version of phantomjs phantomjs --version I get this error and warning: Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file [WARNING] phantomjs: cannot connect to X server I tried…
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Linux centos fontconfig help need

I'm trying to get wkhtmltopdf working and i received the following error when using certain fonts with @font_face. /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf: symbol lookup error: /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf: undefined symbol: FcFreeTypeQueryFace So I looked it up and saw I…
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