Re: Increasing point size of Meera font using fontconfig

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Hi again,

I tested your snippet and it works perfectly.  It's actually a very nice
trick that should be documented!  I'm CC'ing fedora-fonts-list.  Here's
the snippet to adjust font size for a family.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<!-- multiply the matrix of Meera font for solving size mismatch with Rachana-->
        <match target="font">
                <test name="family" mode="eq">
                        <string>Meera</string>
                </test>
                <edit name="matrix" mode="assign">
                        <times>
                                <name>matrix</name>
                               
<matrix><double>1.2</double><double>0</double>
                                       
<double>0</double><double>1.2</double>
                                </matrix>
                        </times>
                </edit>
        </match>
</fontconfig>


behdad


On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 15:13 +0530, Pravin Satpute wrote:
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>  Hi Behdad,
>  
>  ~    I am maintainer of package smc-fonts-meera-04-6.fc9.noarch and i 
>  want to double this fonts point size using fontconfig, i need your help 
>  in this case.
>  Attaching .conf file i have created for meera font,
>  ~    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448078
>  ~    I don't know how to test that whether it is working right or not, 
>  alternately it will be nice if you help me in correcting this file.
>  ~    I will be very thankful to you for giving some time from your busy 
>  schedule.
>  
>  
>  Thanks & Regards,
>  Pravin S
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behdad
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Increasing point size of Meera font using fontconfig

Hi Behdad,

original source is from
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/smc/fonts/malayalam-fonts-04.1.zip
just edited it for testing
good to know it is working perfectly

where should i submit this patch
1) to fontconfig package? or
2) will it ok to copy it to /etc/conf.d through smc-fonts package?
IMO second one is not right

let me know so i can do remaining things for
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448078

Thanks,
Pravin S


2008/7/24 Behdad Esfahbod <besfahbo(a)redhat.com&gt;:
>  Hi again,
>
>  I tested your snippet and it works perfectly.  It's actually a very nice
>  trick that should be documented!  I'm CC'ing fedora-fonts-list.  Here's
>  the snippet to adjust font size for a family.
>
>  <?xml version="1.0"?>
>  <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
>  <fontconfig>
>  <!-- multiply the matrix of Meera font for solving size mismatch with Rachana-->
>         <match target="font">
>                 <test name="family" mode="eq">
>                         <string>Meera</string>
>                 </test>
>                 <edit name="matrix" mode="assign">
>                         <times>
>                                 <name>matrix</name>
>                                
> <matrix><double>1.2</double><double>0</double>
>                                        
> <double>0</double><double>1.2</double>
>                                 </matrix>
>                         </times>
>                 </edit>
>         </match>
>  </fontconfig>
>
>
>  behdad
>
>
>  On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 15:13 +0530, Pravin Satpute wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > Hi Behdad,
> >
> > ~    I am maintainer of package smc-fonts-meera-04-6.fc9.noarch and i
> > want to double this fonts point size using fontconfig, i need your help
> > in this case.
> > Attaching .conf file i have created for meera font,
> > ~    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448078
> > ~    I don't know how to test that whether it is working right or not,
> > alternately it will be nice if you help me in correcting this file.
> > ~    I will be very thankful to you for giving some time from your busy
> > schedule.
> >
> >
> > Thanks & Regards,
> > Pravin S
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>  behdad
>  http://behdad.org/
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Increasing point size of Meera font using fontconfig

[Nicolas Mailhot]

On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 11:43 +0530, Pravin S wrote:

>  where should i submit this patch
>  1) to fontconfig package? or
>  2) will it ok to copy it to /etc/conf.d through smc-fonts package?
>  IMO second one is not right 
We have many packages that do that, because isuing a fontconfig update
each time a maintainer wants to change a fontconfig rule for his font is
frankly not scalable. As a bonus that also means fontconfig does not
have to process rules for fonts not installed on the system. The whole
conf.d change was made to make this kind of use possible.

>  2008/7/24 Behdad Esfahbod : 
>  > I tested your snippet and it works perfectly.  It's actually
> a very nice
>  > trick that should be documented!  I'm CC'ing fedora-fonts-list. 
Thanks but really, it's a wiki you know. Anyway:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fontconfig_packaging_tips#Auto-scaling_prob...

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

Increasing point size of Meera font using fontconfig

2008/7/25 Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot(a)gmail.com&gt;:
>  On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 11:43 +0530, Pravin S wrote:
>
> > where should i submit this patch
> > 1) to fontconfig package? or
> > 2) will it ok to copy it to /etc/conf.d through smc-fonts package?
> > IMO second one is not right
>
>  We have many packages that do that, because isuing a fontconfig update
>  each time a maintainer wants to change a fontconfig rule for his font is
>  frankly not scalable. As a bonus that also means fontconfig does not
>  have to process rules for fonts not installed on the system. The whole
>  conf.d change was made to make this kind of use possible. 
agree,
having .conf file with font package is very likely since it is for
particular font,
but problem can be
conf.d will get overwrite after each update of fontconfig and
possibility of loss of .conf files
that is only problem i think

> > 2008/7/24 Behdad Esfahbod :
>
> > > I tested your snippet and it works perfectly.  It's actually a very nice
> > > trick that should be documented!  I'm CC'ing fedora-fonts-list.
>
>  Thanks but really, it's a wiki you know. Anyway:
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fontconfig_packaging_tips#Auto-scaling_prob...
>
>  Regards,
>
>  --
>  Nicolas Mailhot
>  


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Thanks & Regards,
-------------------------
Pravin Satpute

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the
intelligent are full of doubt.
--Bertrand Russell

Increasing point size of Meera font using fontconfig

[Nicolas Mailhot]

On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 16:04 +0530, Pravin S wrote:

>  agree,
>  having .conf file with font package is very likely since it is for
>  particular font,
>  but problem can be
>  conf.d will get overwrite after each update of fontconfig and
>  possibility of loss of .conf files
>  that is only problem i think 
Our method of shipping separate fontconfig rules in font packages has
been used in many packages for quite a long time. If it had this problem
someone would have complained.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot