[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.5.3

[Klaus Schmidinger]

On 06/16/07 16:29, Anssi Hannula wrote:
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>> On 06/15/07 18:07, Anssi Hannula wrote:
>>> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>>>> On 06/10/07 17:53, Anssi Hannula wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>> Alternatively, you could use the fontconfig library [1] for managing 
>>>>> fonts. This would also allow using using the system default fonts via 
>>>>> aliases like 'sans-serif' etc, and using a font list instead of having 
>>>>> to manually write the font filename via OSD.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can get a quick idea from looking at the patch which added 
>>>>> fontconfig support for mplayer [2], though of course you should look in 
>>>>> fontconfig documentation instead of copying conventions from mplayer :)
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] http://fontconfig.org/
>>>>> [2] 
>>>>> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2003-November/022218.html
>>>> When I do
>>>>
>>>>      const char *font_name = "sans-serif";
>>>>      FcInit();
>>>>      FcPattern *fc_pattern = FcNameParse((FcChar8 *)font_name);
>>> While fontconfig is usually configured to ignore bitmap fonts anyway, I 
>>> think you should enforce that by putting this call here:
>>> FcPatternAddBool(fc_pattern, FC_SCALABLE, FcTrue);
>> Thanks.
> 
> Actually, I was wrong here. This won't guarantee anything, as the 
> preference priorities of parameters is predefined, and the family name 
> and, apparently, various other parameters (which are actually left at 
> their defaults) are given a priority over the font being scalable. I was 
> hit with this when trying to select FC_FAMILY "Utopia", and it kept 
> returning the non-scalable version, even though a scalable version with 
> the same name is available.
> 
> Solution is given here:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2006-March/002165.html
> 
> So it is doable, but you have to use FcFontSort() ( 
> http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/packages/html/fontconfig_3.html#SEC20 
> ), which returns a similar FcFontSet as the FcFontList() which is used 
> for the font listing, but this time the fonts are ordered according to 
> the closeness of match, allowing you to pick the first font with 
> FC_SCALABLE being true.
> 
> [...]
> 
> I don't know if you have noticed / thought of these already, but few tips:
> - For the fixed-size font list, you can use a match of FC_SPACING being 
> FC_MONO so that non-monospace fonts are not listed.
> - Have a "default" (or "system default") font setting in the font list, 
> which causes VDR to use the default aliases instead of user-specified font

Since you're apparently getting more and more familiar with this,
maybe you could provide a complete code sequence that does this:

- list all available fonts, as in "Arial", "Verdana", "Times New Roman", ...

- optionally list only monospaced fonts

- make sure there are only scalable fonts (i.e. ones that freetype can use)

- if possible, give information on whether a particular font is available
  as "bold" and/or "italic