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fcft is a small font loading and glyph rasterization library built
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on-top of FontConfig, FreeType2 and pixman.
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It can load and cache fonts from a fontconfig-formatted name string,
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e.g. Monospace:size=12, optionally with user configured fallback fonts.
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After a font has been loaded, you can rasterize glyphs. When doing so,
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the primary font is first considered. If it does not have the requested
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glyph, the user configured fallback fonts (if any) are considered.
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If none of the user configured fallback fonts has the requested glyph,
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the FontConfig generated list of fallback fonts are checked.
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The API is documented as man pages.
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Starting with 2.3.0, fcft gained the ability to do text shaping using
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HarfBuzz (an optional dependency). Initially, only individual grapheme
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clusters could be shaped. With 2.4.0, the ability to shape whole
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text-runs were added. It should be noted however, that fcft does
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not aim to compete with e.g. Pango, and that the text shaping support
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may not be (and perhaps never will be) sufficient for “professional”
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text layout.
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if you have to rebuild the package delete /tmp/SBo/fcft directory.
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