[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.5.3

[Klaus Schmidinger]

On 06/16/07 15:36, Anssi Hannula wrote:
> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>> On 06/10/07 17:53, Anssi Hannula wrote:
>>> +  strcpy(FontOsd, "arialbd.ttf");
>>> +  strcpy(FontSml, "arial.ttf");
>>> +  strcpy(FontFix, "courbd.ttf");
>>>
>>> I'd use some free-as-in-freedom font (Vera?) by default, that are more 
>>> likely installed in systems.
>> Those were the ones suggested in Alexander Riedel's original patch.
>> Which ones would you suggest?
>>
> 
> If you will decide to go with fontconfig, just for the record, the 
> relevant aliases AFAIK are "sans-serif:bold", "sans-serif", and 
> "monospace:bold", i.e. for the current defaults "Arial Bold", "Arial" 
> and "Courier Bold". There probably is another way to specify bold (or 
> query bold capability) using fontconfig functions as well, but :bold 
> seems to work for me.

Yes, I'm currently going for fontconfig - looks very promising so far.

And your hint is much appreciated - that's exactly what I needed
right now :-)

Klaus