On Sunday 04 November 2007 8:50:48 am Michael Droettboom wrote:
> This is maybe another push in the direction of using fontconfig (which
> claims to support otf fonts already).  I'd really prefer to go in that
> direction rather than continue to tack on partial reimplementations of it
> in font_manager.py -- but it does complicate dependencies on non-X11
> platforms).

What are the dependency problems? I thought freetype was the only requirement. 
Incidentally, GIMP uses fontconfig on windows, and they comment at 
http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html: "Contrary to what many 
seem to think, fontconfig is in no way dependent on X11, so it does make some 
sense to use it on Windows."

> There is experimental support for using fontconfig (through the commandline
> interface, not an API wrapper), that may work.  Just set the USE_FONTCONFIG
> variable to True in font_manager.py.  You will have to copy the MPL fonts
> to a system font directory (such as ~/.fonts) in order for fontconfig to
> find them.
>
> (I can also look into this myself when I return to the office on Monday...)

Same here, I'll have a look on Monday.

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