From: Robert Pluim Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 09:34:37 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Describe --with-cairo non-support for bitmapped fonts. X-Git-Tag: emacs-27.0.90~157 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5505babc0706bb949f35e2299762e592c62070ec;p=emacs.git Describe --with-cairo non-support for bitmapped fonts. * etc/NEWS: Mention Pango's removal of support for bitmapped fonts. --- diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index a36a6b59efa..12536574760 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -56,7 +56,10 @@ than their Lisp counterparts from json.el. ** The configure option '--with-cairo' is no longer experimental. This builds Emacs with Cairo drawing, and supports built-in printing when Emacs is built with GTK+. Some severe bugs in this build were -fixed, and we can therefore offer this to users without caveats. +fixed, and we can therefore offer this to users without caveats. Note +that building with Cairo enabled results in using Pango instead of +libXft for font support, and that Pango 1.44 has removed support for +bitmapped fonts. +++ ** Emacs now uses a "portable dumper" instead of unexec.