Bug 18728

Summary: RFE: allow direct query of font files
Product: fontconfig Reporter: Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot>
Component: fc-listAssignee: Keith Packard <keithp>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: medium CC: fonts-bugs
Version: 2.6   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Nicolas Mailhot 2008-11-27 01:41:32 UTC 
Fontconfig can give you a lot of information about installed fonts. Unfortunately that requires installation in the first place and does not help people that just want to check the capabilities of a set of font files before installing them.

To take an analogy, rpm has a query flag that will work on all the installed package base, but you can also ask it to examine a set of uninstalled packages using the -p flag (rpm -q -p /tmp/foo*rpm)

Please enhance fontconfig utilities so it is possible to make them introspect a set of on-disk font files instead of working on the fonts installed on the system.
Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2008-12-28 00:22:09 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 13019 ***

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