Better font detection [Enable fontconfig support] #4
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enhancement
New feature or request
font
topics related to font support
help wanted
Extra attention is needed
For the PDF's that does not embed fonts (mostly Adobe Base-14 fonts as they are not required to embed as per PDF specification) in them we have to search for fonts in user's system.
The best way for that should be using fontconfig as xpdf-4.02 has fontconfig support already but disabled in libxpdf.
Why fontconfig support is disabled in libxpdf?
Because goal of libxpdf was to provide static library with minimum dependencies by including them statically. But for fontconfig, including it in a static library is pretty difficult (at least for me) as :
Probable solutions:-
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