Re: [Fontconfig] Application fonts with Pango+fontconfig

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 15-05-13 06:17 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 03:34:59PM -0700, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > On 15-05-10 12:10 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > > This seems to be a general Pango issue, if I modify a font while
> > > an application is using it, I get similar issues. 
> >
> > This sounds like caching inside cairo messing things up.  I'll think about it.
> >  Not sure how to best address it...
>
> What is cached by cairo and how is that different from drawing the glyph
> on cairo directly rather than through pango-cairo?

In your old code you create FT_Face and pass it to cairo.  pangocairo however,
passes a FcPattern to cairo and let cairo create the FT_Face.  Cairo caches
FT_Face based on filename and face index, which obviously is broken here...

I have other issues with the cairo FT_Face handling to fix.  I might end up
considerably revamp cairo-ft internals (very tricky and time-consuming), or in
the mean time fix pangocairo to create its own FT_Face and pass to cairo.

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