Staffan Gimåker wrote:> On Wednesday 07 January 2009 23:55:45 Behdad Esfahbod wrote:>> If you still decide to use fontconfig directly, I always reply to messages>> that are to the point. True, there is no good guide to read. But if you>> ask smart questions (like, "I have a family name, how do I find the best>> font file to use?"), you get smart answers. If you ask stupid questions>> ("how do I use fontconfig?"), you probably don't get any answers.> > So, if I have a family name (say, Times), how *do I* find the best font file to > use (as in, the path to the font)?
Check the man pages for exact parameters and error handling, but somethinglike this:
FcPattern *pat, *match; FcResult result; char *file; int index;
pat = FcPatternCreate (); FcPatternAddString (pat, FC_FAMILY, "Times"); FcConfigSubstitute (NULL, pat, FcMatchPattern); FcDefaultSubstitute (pat); match = FcFontMatch (NULL, pat, &result);
FcPatternGetString (match, FC_FILE, 0, (FcChar8 **) &file); FcPatternGetInteger (match, FC_INDEX, 0, &index);
If you use FreeType, at this point you can do:
FT_New_Face (ftlib, file, id, &face);
to get your face. Then you can clean up:
FcPatternDestroy (match); FcPatternDestroy (pat);
> (We use OpenGL to render (polygonal) text in 3D so, AFAICT, going through > Pango seems a bit redundant for our usage.)
Going through Pango gets you internationalization. That is, correct renderingof Arabic, Hebrew, Indic, Thai, etc etc etc. There are a few projects usingPango with OpenGL. Search the net.
Cheers,behdad
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