Re: Listing available sizes for a font

[Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 08:34:26AM -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 21:05, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On a machine without XFT or with GDK_USE_XFT=0, GtkFontSelection shows
> > its normal set of sizes (8 to 72) for all faces, even though some of
> > them may not be available in some sizes --- bitmap fonts, of course.
> >
> > Is there a way to get the list of available sizes for a face from
> > Pango?  I'd like to modify GtkFontSelection to display only the
> > available ones.
> 
> No, there isn't a way.
> 
> And Pango-1.4 will (I'm pretty sure at this point) drop support for
> non-Xft X rendering, so for non-Xft, there really isn't a point

I'm sorry, does this mean that gtk-2.x apps won't run on any X server not 
supporting Xft (i.e. it will work only on XFree-4.x and above)?

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 Best regards,
  -Vlad