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# Fontconfig
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Font configuration and customization library
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## About Fontconfig
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Fontconfig can:
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* discover new fonts when installed automatically, removing a common source of configuration problems.
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* perform font name substitution, so that appropriate alternative fonts can be selected if fonts are missing.
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* identify the set of fonts required to completely cover a set of languages.
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* have GUI configuration tools built as it uses an XML-based configuration file (though with autodiscovery, we believe this need is minimized).
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* efficiently and quickly find the fonts you need among the set of fonts you have installed, even if you have installed thousands of fonts, while minimizing memory usage.
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* be used in concert with the X Render Extension and [FreeType](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/FreeType/) to implement high quality, anti-aliased and subpixel rendered text on a display.
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Fontconfig does not:
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* render the fonts themselves (this is left to FreeType or other rendering mechanisms)
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* depend on the X Window System in any fashion, so that printer only applications do not have such dependencies
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## Documentation
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* [Fontconfig User Documentation](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html)
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* [Fontconfig Developer Documentation](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/fontconfig-devel/)
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## Bug report
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If you have cncountered any issues regarding to Fontconfig, please file an issue at [GitLab issue tracker](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/issues)
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