Bugzilla – Bug 53228
Enhance pango to support artifical bold and italic
Last modified: 2005-12-30 13:17:55 UTC
This patch enhances pango to support artifical bold and italic.
Created attachment 17836 [details] The patch.
Is this patch intended for SuSE Linux 9.1 or for future versions and mainstream?
This patch would be for SLS9, but only if we can add it without any risk and if it doesn't break any backward compatibility. Please comment, then assign to me for decision.
This patch should be ok. It does not modify any API and the behavior of client software. Indeed, the artifical bold and italic are supported in Xft, this patch just adds the required information in order to let Xft do the right job.
I tried this patch. It applies cleanly; package is ready to be checked in. Since it does not modify the API, I think positive to check it in. Ralf, please make your decision.
I tested this patch together with the one from #38226, and it works.
Ok, green light to submit to autobuild. Please mention the Bugzilla entry.
Package submitted to SLES9
This bug is exist in SUSE 10.1. I'll post an updated patch for pango 1.10.1.
Created attachment 54869 [details] The updated patch for pango 1.10.1 Please submit it to SUSE 10.1
The upstream people need to see this bug. Can we make it public?
IMO, it should be ok.
It's public now.
Do you have any update about this issue? Can we merge this patch into our pango package first?
If the patch works for you (and doesn't do things like faking bold/italic for fonts that *do* have them), feel free to add it to our package. You'll need to ask Owen or Behdad upstream, as I'm not that familiar with the fontconfig API.
I'd like to help add that patch to our package. However, it's hard for me to access autobuild system because of the poor network connection in our office. The VPN client for Linux is always failed to connect to the vpn server. We are asking our IS&T engineer to help us setup the vpn connection on router, but it needs some time. So could you please help add the patch?
I submitted pango with the patch from Comment #10 to STABLE.
Created attachment 61826 [details] gedit-font-selection-dialog-without-patch.png font selection dialog in gedit without the patch applied. Only "Regular" is selectable for "FZSongTi".
Created attachment 61827 [details] gedit-font-selection-dialog-with-patch.png font selection dialog in gedit without the patch applied. "Regular", "Italic", "Bold", and "Bold Italic" are selectable now for "FZSongTi".
As I submitted the patched package to STABLE and verified that it works, I am closing this bug as FIXED.