[Open Office] Re: Advanced Font Properties Question (Freetype +Fontconfig)

[Jan Uhlir]

So Philipp Lohman from dev at openoffice.org gave me the aswer. Unfotunately, his answer was negative.
Does someone work in go--oo.org community on better integratation of Fontconfig?
I spot a patch add hinting support into OOo.
Or Cairo is intended to solve it all? 

> > Hello everyone,
> > I have a curious question about status of support of system fontconfig/freetype in recent OpenOffice.org 2.0.x
> > Similar question was left unaswered on user forum so I'm trying my luck here..
> > I use build options --with-system-freetype --enable-fontconfig. Does it mean that OOo will now obey a system 
> > fontconfig settings (/etc/fonts.conf) I have a precise per font settings fonts.conf - size and font tailored hinting, 
> > autohinting and antialiasing and I naturally want OOo to follow them.
> > What is the exact relation between OOo and system fontconfig/freetype if OOo is build with --with-system-freetype 
> > --enable-fontconfig?

> From: Philipp Lohman (24/1/2006)
> OOo uses fontconfig to discover available fonts and what their names are. Also fontconfig is used to discover 
> which UI font to use if you happen to run the gtk plugin for OOo (usually > the case if you run OOo on Gnome).
> The more detailed settings you mentioned are not supported as of now; that would be an enhancement yet to 
> be implemented.
> Kind regards, pl