[Fontconfig] One-Off App-Specific Configs

Noah Levitt fontconfig@fontconfig.org
Tue, 29 Apr 2003 11:27:12 -0400


On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at  4:08:58 -0400, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
> Am I correct that the only way to convince a naïve app to use
> different settings for things like locations of useable fonts, dpi,
> sub-pixel rendering, etc is to write a fonts.conf for it (which may
> include /etc/fonts/fonts.conf if desired) and run said app with
> FONTCONFIG_FILE pointing at said fonts.conf?

I'm not sure about location, but the rest can be specified
when you open the font in your program, using FcPattern.

Noah