On 06/15/07 18:07, Anssi Hannula wrote: > Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >> On 06/10/07 17:53, Anssi Hannula wrote: >>> ... >>> Alternatively, you could use the fontconfig library [1] for managing >>> fonts. This would also allow using using the system default fonts via >>> aliases like 'sans-serif' etc, and using a font list instead of having >>> to manually write the font filename via OSD. >>> >>> You can get a quick idea from looking at the patch which added >>> fontconfig support for mplayer [2], though of course you should look in >>> fontconfig documentation instead of copying conventions from mplayer :) >>> >>> [1] http://fontconfig.org/ >>> [2] >>> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2003-November/022218.html >> When I do >> >> const char *font_name = "sans-serif"; >> FcInit(); >> FcPattern *fc_pattern = FcNameParse((FcChar8 *)font_name); > > While fontconfig is usually configured to ignore bitmap fonts anyway, I > think you should enforce that by putting this call here: > FcPatternAddBool(fc_pattern, FC_SCALABLE, FcTrue); Thanks. >> FcConfigSubstitute(0, fc_pattern, FcMatchPattern); >> FcDefaultSubstitute(fc_pattern); >> fc_pattern = FcFontMatch(0, fc_pattern, 0); >> FcChar8 *s; >> FcPatternGetString(fc_pattern, FC_FILE, 0, &s); >> fprintf(stderr, "font '%s'\n", s);//XXX >> free(fc_pattern); > > Use FcPatternDestroy(fc_pattern) instead, using free() here causes an > error for me. > >> FcFini(); >> >> it prints >> >> font '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/arial.ttf' >> >> which looks good. However, when I use "courier" instead of "sans-serif", I get >> >> font '/usr/share/fonts/URW/n022003l.pfb' >> >> which is not a truetype font and therefore can't be used with VDR's font rendering. > > Hmm... AFAIK it is scalable and freetype can use it. Or is there some > another restriction regarding VDR font rendering? Well, I was wrong here. I assumed that Freetype could only handle *.ttf files, but I've explicitly tried /usr/share/fonts/URW/n022003l.pfb now and it works just fine. >> Is there a way to make fontconfig only return truetype fonts? >> >> >> Also: is there a way to get a list of available truetype fonts from >> fontconfig? That's what would be needed to allow the user to select >> a desired font in VDR's Setup/OSD menu. > > Gathering from > http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/packages/html/fontconfig_3.html , it > can be done with something like this: > > // what info is requested: > FcObjectSet *os = FcObjectSetBuild(FC_FAMILY, NULL); > // what fonts are requested: > FcPattern *pat = FcPatternBuild(NULL, FC_SCALABLE, FcTypeBool, FcTrue, > NULL); > FcFontSet* fontset = FcFontList(0, pat, os); > FcObjectSetDestroy(os); > FcPatternDestroy(pat); > for (int i = 0; i < fontset->nfont ; i++) { > FcChar8 *t; > FcPatternGetString(fontset->fonts[i], FC_FAMILY, 0, &t); > fprintf(stderr, "font '%s'\n", t); > } > FcFontSetDestroy(fontset); Thanks, I'll give this a shot. Klaus _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
