Around 18 o'clock on Dec 17, Adriano Del Vigna de Almeida wrote: > I need to discover the font file from the font name. For example, I want > to remove the font named 'BitStream Vera Sans'. I need to pass to my > application this name, and then discover that this font name is > associated with '/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/vera.ttf', for example. That's all fontconfig does; check out the fontconfig documentation or look at some of thecode in Pango, Mozilla or Xft to see how it's all put together. -keith