[Development] about the Cocoa/Freetype fontengine

[Sérgio Martins]

On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 6:32 PM, René J. V.  Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Are there any plans to evolve the FreeType support on Mac any further, possibly
> adding FontConfig support so fonts can really be rendered in identical fashion
> on at least the major Unix platforms?

Hi René,


Check the last two comments of
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-42839, there are no plans.

I also wouldn't call it "evolving FreeType", as FreeType is
independent from the font database.

But adding fontconfig support should be quite trivial and wouldn't
touch FT code.



Regards,
Sérgio M.