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Fontconfig 2.0 Released

Posted by michael on from the you'll-get-helvetica-and-like-it dept.

david_g writes "Keith Packard released version 2.0 of Fontconfig. Fontconfig is "a library for configuring and customizing font access". It can "discover new fonts when installed automatically, removing a common source of configuration problems", among other nifty functionalities. It comes with Xft2, and there are patches for GTK, Mozilla, and QT3 being readied. Another small step towards world domination..."

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  1. bad design by sstory · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    if this works, linux enthusiasts will no doubt have to find new ways for linux to look amateurish.

  2. Re:Now all we need is.... by mshiltonj · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    My wife won't run Linux until there's a WYSIWYG HTML editor to replace DreamWeaver.

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    Software Wars