[gtk-web] Improve fontconfig and freetype description



commit 03479c1447eeee4db5b8be1983eabd379e180bfb
Author: Tor Lillqvist <tml iki fi>
Date:   Sat Sep 12 10:17:16 2009 +0300

    Improve fontconfig and freetype description

 download-windows-64bit.html |   18 +++++++-----------
 download-windows.html       |   20 ++++++++------------
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/download-windows-64bit.html b/download-windows-64bit.html
index c66f50d..31daad9 100644
--- a/download-windows-64bit.html
+++ b/download-windows-64bit.html
@@ -297,20 +297,16 @@
 	when building software using libraries that provide pkg-config
 	data. It requires GLib.</p>
 
-	<h4>About freetype</h4>
-	<p>This is used by cairo and by Pango's pangoft2
-	library. It is linked to but not actually used for just GTK+
-	applications.</p>
+	<h4>About freetype and fontconfig</h4>
 
-	<h4>About fontconfig</h4>
-	<p>Fontconfig is used by the FreeType2 backend in Pango
-	(pangoft2) and by cairo's freetype font backend, and by
-	GIMP. Fontconfig is in no way dependent on X11, so it does
-	make some sense to use it on Windows. libpango links to
-	libpangoft2 so you will need fontconfig even if in a pure GTK+
-	application it won't be used.</p>
+	<p>These libraries are used by cairo and by Pango, so they are
+	required. They provide an alternative font backend. In a
+	normal GTK+ application on Windows their functionality won't
+	actually be used, though. GIMP is an exception, GIMP's text
+	tool uses freetype and fontconfig APIs.</p>
 
 	<h4>About libexpat</h4>
+
 	<p>This is a library required by fontconfig.</p>
 
 	<h4>About proxy-libintl</h4> 
diff --git a/download-windows.html b/download-windows.html
index d58a58a..6ee4a61 100644
--- a/download-windows.html
+++ b/download-windows.html
@@ -334,21 +334,17 @@
 	when building software using libraries that provide pkg-config
 	data. It requires GLib.</p>
 
-	<h4>About freetype</h4>
-	<p>This is used by cairo and by Pango's pangoft2
-	library. It is linked to but not actually used for just GTK+
-	applications.</p>
+	<h4>About freetype and fontconfig</h4>
 
-	<h4>About fontconfig</h4>
-	<p>Fontconfig is used by the FreeType2 backend in Pango
-	(pangoft2) and by cairo's freetype font backend, and by
-	GIMP. Fontconfig is in no way dependent on X11, so it does
-	make some sense to use it on Windows. libpango links to
-	libpangoft2 so you will need fontconfig even if in a pure GTK+
-	application it won't be used.</p>
+	<p>These libraries are used by cairo and by Pango, so they are
+	required. They provide an alternative font backend. In a
+	normal GTK+ application on Windows their functionality won't
+	actually be used, though. GIMP is an exception, GIMP's text
+	tool uses freetype and fontconfig APIs.</p>
 
 	<h4>About libexpat</h4>
-	<p>This is required by fontconfig.</p>
+
+	<p>This is a library required by fontconfig.</p>
 
 	<h4>About dirent</h4>
 	<p>This is the public domain implementation of dirent.h from



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