206019 - [ps] use fontconfig to find fonts for postscript printing

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Printing: Output, enhancement)

Description

[Moses Lei]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20030430 Galeon/1.3.4 Debian/1.3.4.20030509-1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20030430 Galeon/1.3.4 Debian/1.3.4.20030509-1

Now that fontconfig is becoming widely available on Linux systems, it may be an
option to use it to find fonts suitable for printing. Along with Xft2 (which
uses fontconfig) this could improve screen to printer parity.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Moses Lei]

Comments welcome. Depend on bug 165804 (Integration of xft and fontconfig).

Comment 2

[keithp]

The same fonts that appear on the screen can be used on printers as long as
there is code to take an arbitrary font file and prepare it for postscript
output.  Such code will be useful in environments other than Mozilla; the Xr
library will (eventually) need such functionality, perhaps some reasonable
arrangement can be made to share it.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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