XFT(3)

NAME
 Xft - X FreeType interface library

DESCRIPTION
Xft is a simple library designed to interface the FreeType rasterizer with the X Rendering Extension. This manual page barely scratches the surface of this library.

DATATYPES

XftPattern holds a set of names with associated value lists; each name refers to a property of a font. XftPatterns are used as inputs to the matching code as well as holding information about specific fonts.

XftFont contains general font metrics and a pointer to either the core XFontStruct data or a structure holding FreeType and X Render Extension data.

XftFontStruct contains information about FreeType fonts used with the X Render Extension.

XftFontSet contains a list of XftPatterns. Internally Xft uses this data structure to hold sets of fonts. Externally, Xft returns the results of listing fonts in this format.

XftObjectSet holds a set of names and is used to specify which fields from fonts are placed in the the list of returned patterns when listing fonts.

XftDraw is an opaque object which holds information used to render to an X drawable using either core protocol or the X Rendering extension.

FUNCTIONS
XftFont *
XftFontOpen (Display *dpy, int screen, ...);
XftFontOpen takes a list of pattern elements of the form (field, type, value) terminated with a NULL, matches that pattern against the available fonts and opens the matching font.

Example:
    font = XftFontOpen (dpy, scr,
                XFT_FAMILY, XftTypeString, "charter",
                XFT_SIZE, XftTypeDouble, 12.0,
                NULL);

This opens the charter font at 12 points. The point size is automatically converted to the correct pixel size based on the resolution of the monitor.

void
XftTextExtents8 (Display	*dpy,
		 XftFont	*font,
		 unsigned char  *string,
		 int		len,
		 XGlyphInfo	*extents);
XftTextExtents8 computes the pixel extents of "string" when drawn with "font".

XftDraw *
XftDrawCreate (Display   *dpy,
	       Drawable  drawable,
	       Visual    *visual,
	       Colormap  colormap);
XftDrawCreate creates a structure that can be used to render text and rectangles to the screen.

void
XftDrawString8 (XftDraw		*d,
		XRenderColor	*color,
		XftFont		*font,
		int		x,
		int		y,
		unsigned char	*string,
		int		len);
XftDrawString8 draws "string" using "font" in "color" at "x, y".

void
XftDrawRect (XftDraw	    *d,
	     XRenderColor   *color,
	     int	    x,
	     int	    y,
	     unsigned int   width,
	     unsigned int   height);
XftDrawRect fills a solid rectangle in the specified color.

COMPATIBILITY
As of version 2, Xft has become relatively stable and is expected to retain source and binary compatibility in future releases.

AUTHOR
Keith Packard