Bug 18095

Summary:	Add caching of PostScript names
Product:	fontconfig	Reporter:	Isaiah Beerbower <public>
Component:	library	Assignee:	fontconfig-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Behdad Esfahbod <freedesktop>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium	CC:	akira, bugs.freedesktop, michal
Version:	2_1
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	A patch which adds the desired feature.

Description Isaiah Beerbower 2008-10-16 14:09:09 UTC

Created attachment 19703 [details] [review]
A patch which adds the desired feature.

I am working on GNUstep's (http://www.gnustep.org/) font support. One
of GNUstep's goals is to implement the OpenStep specification
(http://www.gnustep.org/resources/OpenStepSpec.pdf.gz). Fontconfig is
already being used by GNUstep, however, in order to properly implement
the OpenStep standard the PostScript name should be used to uniquely
reference a font. Right now GNUstep is using the full font name,
however, it would be better if the PostScript name was cached so that
it could be used instead.

I've attached a patch (postscript_name.diff) which implements this functionality.

Related are these threads:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2008-October/003028.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2008-June/002957.html

Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2008-12-28 01:08:51 UTC

Keith, what's your take on this issue?  It keeps coming up again and again.

Comment 2 Keith Packard 2008-12-28 08:38:51 UTC

This seems like useful functionality, my only concern is how we match when the user provides a postscript name and no fonts exist with that name. Do we construct artificial postscript names for all fonts?

Comment 3 Behdad Esfahbod 2009-08-22 13:19:10 UTC

*** Bug 23435 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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