[gtk-web] Improve fontconfig and freetype description
- From: Tor Lillqvist <tml src gnome org>
- To: svn-commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gtk-web] Improve fontconfig and freetype description
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:17:59 +0000 (UTC)
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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