[Bug 18728] New: RFE: allow direct query of font files

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18728

           Summary: RFE: allow direct query of font files
           Product: fontconfig
           Version: 2.6
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: fc-list
        AssignedTo: keithp keithp com
        ReportedBy: nicolas mailhot laposte net
                CC: fedora-fonts-bugs-list redhat com


Fontconfig can give you a lot of information about installed fonts.
Unfortunately that requires installation in the first place and does not help
people that just want to check the capabilities of a set of font files before
installing them.

To take an analogy, rpm has a query flag that will work on all the installed
package base, but you can also ask it to examine a set of uninstalled packages
using the -p flag (rpm -q -p /tmp/foo*rpm)

Please enhance fontconfig utilities so it is possible to make them introspect a
set of on-disk font files instead of working on the fonts installed on the
system.


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