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fine much better. can u please tell what is the main relationship between fontconfig and Freetype? I mean if i do fc-list or any stuff like that, is it dependent of Freetype? In which scenarios Fontconfig calls FreeType?

Ammar Ul Hassan
– Ammar Ul Hassan

2017-10-18 12:12:25 +00:00
Commented Oct 18, 2017 at 12:12
Just to make sure what i learned is correct. FreeType is a library that is mainly responsible for digging deep in a font file and taking out the low level information like face, Cmap, glyph details etc. ? And font config is a high level API which usually do the management and location of fonts in Linux operating system?

Ammar Ul Hassan
– Ammar Ul Hassan

2017-10-19 02:00:43 +00:00
Commented Oct 19, 2017 at 2:00
that's close enough

Thomas Dickey
– Thomas Dickey

2017-10-19 08:05:44 +00:00
Commented Oct 19, 2017 at 8:05
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FreeType does font glyph-by-glyph rendering, Fontconfig does font matching. Fontconfig helps you find the right font, FreeType lets you actually use it.

Lawrence D'Oliveiro
– Lawrence D'Oliveiro

2017-11-04 00:00:20 +00:00
Commented Nov 4, 2017 at 0:00

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