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| author | Robert Pluim | 2020-01-16 10:34:37 +0100 |
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| committer | Robert Pluim | 2020-01-16 10:34:37 +0100 |
| commit | 5505babc0706bb949f35e2299762e592c62070ec (patch) | |
| tree | b0f305caa8d5d9a9c0c8693afe35a649599b9e7d | |
| parent | caf00066eec4cbfb905c52100cae7bf8d025d4b5 (diff) | |
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Describe --with-cairo non-support for bitmapped fonts.
* etc/NEWS: Mention Pango's removal of support for bitmapped fonts.
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/NEWS | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
| @@ -56,7 +56,10 @@ than their Lisp counterparts from json.el. | |||
| 56 | ** The configure option '--with-cairo' is no longer experimental. | 56 | ** The configure option '--with-cairo' is no longer experimental. |
| 57 | This builds Emacs with Cairo drawing, and supports built-in printing | 57 | This builds Emacs with Cairo drawing, and supports built-in printing |
| 58 | when Emacs is built with GTK+. Some severe bugs in this build were | 58 | when Emacs is built with GTK+. Some severe bugs in this build were |
| 59 | fixed, and we can therefore offer this to users without caveats. | 59 | fixed, and we can therefore offer this to users without caveats. Note |
| 60 | that building with Cairo enabled results in using Pango instead of | ||
| 61 | libXft for font support, and that Pango 1.44 has removed support for | ||
| 62 | bitmapped fonts. | ||
| 60 | 63 | ||
| 61 | +++ | 64 | +++ |
| 62 | ** Emacs now uses a "portable dumper" instead of unexec. | 65 | ** Emacs now uses a "portable dumper" instead of unexec. |