- consistency with other applications - if you are using
> gtk+/GNOME, Qt/KDE, Mozilla or other applications that use
> fontconfig then using fontconfig from matplotlib means you
> are using the same font-matching library and have access to
> exactly the same font files as your other applications.
This looked to me to be a heavily UNIX oriented system. Eg, one thing
the font_manager does is query the win32 registry for font location
information. All of the examples I saw on the fontconfig page seemed
to assume /etc and a unix like file system. I didn't look too deep,
though.
Is this portable?
JDH
Fontconfig was developed to work with FreeType, Xft and Unix X-Windows.
However its an independent utility/library, does not require an X
server, and (like GTK+ and GIMP) has since been ported to other systems.
I found this page
http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html
which lists fontconfig for Windows.
Steve
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On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 15:42 -0500, John Hunter wrote:
> - consistency with other applications - if you are using
> gtk+/GNOME, Qt/KDE, Mozilla or other applications that use
> fontconfig then using fontconfig from matplotlib means you
> are using the same font-matching library and have access to
> exactly the same font files as your other applications.
This looked to me to be a heavily UNIX oriented system. Eg, one thing
the font_manager does is query the win32 registry for font location
information. All of the examples I saw on the fontconfig page seemed
to assume /etc and a unix like file system. I didn't look too deep,
though.
Is this portable?