Lots more documentation installed, fontconfig-config replaced
with pkgconfig file.
Changelog covered some versions only:
Release 2.2.0:
* Change version number to 2.2.0
Prerelease 2.1.94:
* BDF property support for foundry and width (Juliusz Chroboczek)
* Clean up GCC warnings (Colin Walters)
Prerelease 2.1.93:
* Use Type1 FontInfoRec to get more detailed weight information
* Run fc-cache from source tree to try and resolve LFS install issues
* Fix fontconfig-user.html generation (was getting smashed)
* Debian build files are in CVS now
* Fixes to build on Windows
* Compute monospacing by looking at glyphs instead of trusting font
* Get widths and more detailed weight from TrueType OS/2 table
* Global cache was re-statting a lot of files.
* Yet more RPM fixes from RedHat
Fontconfig is a library for configuring and customizing font access.
Fontconfig can:
* discover new fonts when installed automatically, removing a common
source of configuration problems.
* perform font name substitution, so that appropriate alternative fonts
can be selected if fonts are missing.
* identify the set of fonts required to completely cover a set of
languages.
* have GUI configuration tools built as it uses an XML-based
configuration file (though with autodiscovery, we believe this need is
minimized).
* efficiently and quickly find the fonts you need among the set of fonts
you have installed, even if you have installed thousands of fonts,
while minimzing memory usage.
* be used in concert with the X Render Extension and FreeType to
implement high quality, anti-aliased and subpixel rendered text on a
display.
Fontconfig does not:
* render the fonts themselves (this is left to FreeType or other
rendering mechanisms).
* depend on the X Window System in any fashion, so that printer only
applications do not have such dependencies.
Approved by wiz.
