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Topic: [LazFreeType] How to read information from a font file? (Read 11011 times)
felipemdc
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[LazFreeType] How to read information from a font file?
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March 06, 2012, 01:11:09 pm »
It would be great to have an example on that, thanks
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zeljko
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Re: [LazFreeType] How to read information from a font file?
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March 10, 2012, 02:22:41 pm »
I guess that such code exists in fontconfig source.
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Re: [LazFreeType] How to read information from a font file?
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March 11, 2012, 09:56:01 am »
But LCL-CustomDrawn uses non-native text in multiple operating systems where fontconfig does not exist (Windows, Mac OS X, Android). I was hoping that circular would know the answer.
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Re: [LazFreeType] How to read information from a font file?
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March 11, 2012, 11:24:42 am »
Ok, so I will answer my own question. Guiliano Colla found out how to do this and he sent me a patch, and here it is:
http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/lcl/interfaces/customdrawn/customdrawnproc.pas?root=lazarus&r1=35879&r2=35878&pathrev=35879
I think that the most important part is:
TT_Get_Name_String(AFace,J,NameString,NameLen);
Which is part of LazFreeType. But in general the entire routine there is a nice example of how to extract font information with LazFreeType
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zeljko
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March 11, 2012, 04:17:25 pm »
I didn't mean that you'll use fontconfig, but to see in source how it is extracted.
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circular
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Re: [LazFreeType] How to read information from a font file?
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March 23, 2012, 05:13:10 pm »
There are now properties Ascent, Descent, LineSpacing and FullLineHeight in TFreeTypeFont.
About the name, apparently, it can be in many languages. Maybe we can use English name only for now.
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Re: [LazFreeType] How to read information from a font file?
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March 24, 2012, 08:27:47 pm »
I've found how to get names. Soon I will put here a test program that reads a directory of fonts.
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Re: [LazFreeType] How to read information from a font file?
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March 24, 2012, 08:40:30 pm »
Here is a test program that allows to explore a directory of fonts. This mechanism will be directly included in LazFreeType later.
Note : you need to use the second patch of LazFreeType.
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Re: [LazFreeType] How to read information from a font file?
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Here is an updated version.
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