Keith Packard wrote: > Around 15 o'clock on Nov 29, Phil Race wrote: > > >>"Arial" doesn't happen to have localised family names >>(truetype name id 1) - although it could. >>But it does have localised style names (name id 2) and it does have >>localised full face names (name id 4). > > > I was trying to be careful to use 'name' to cover all instances of textual > data provided by the font and expected to be presented to the user, but I > admit to constant conflation between family name and 'name'. > > I think the only difference may be that documents will more often encode > family names than style names, but otherwise they're pretty much > equivalent. > > Oh, in the world of full face names, do you need to be able to match (not > list, but match) fonts based on full name? It seems likely, but I wanted > to check as that may take some thought... I have to say yes, since we have succumbed to the same blurring of what a name is and are stuck with it. So we have to assume that what ever char*/string is given as the name maybe legitimate as one or the other and do our best to find it as both before trying anything else. -Phil. > > -keith > >
