Hi Jeremy, On 03/02/11 14:34, Jeremy Moles wrote: > > My question is: using the Fontconfig API, is it possible to--in a > generic way--find out what font file (or more likely "files", the > Fontconfig API will probably want to work with sets of > data)--corresponds to a particular Fontconfig string? That's what FcFontMatch() does. > For example, we love the expressively Pango provides when it allows us > to use fonts in the form of: > > "Arial Bold 20px" > > However, a separate API requires the exact font "file" on disk instead, > and so we'd like to continue using this expressive Pango/Fontconfig > syntax in order to provide the REAL file to the older software. Unfortunately Pango currently does not provide the function pango_fc_font_description_to_pattern(). It will in some future version. You can build a PangoFontDescription, but you need to convert that to a Fontconfig pattern yourself (or copy the code from pango). Hope that helps, behdad > I'll continue browsing through the source for now, but if anyone has any > advice to get me started, I'd really appreciate it! > > _______________________________________________ > Fontconfig mailing list > Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig > _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
