Fontconfig - Nov 2005 - Discovering the font file from the font name

Right Keith, people,

I got a good source of sample at Fontilus... Now I can do what I need!
Thanks fot the help!

Another point. In my company we are working in some customizations of
fontconfig also. Beyond the actual management it does, we need that
fontconfig also works with a new sort of configuration. I''ll explain.

For example, fontconfig now deals with all the fonts installed into the
system right? System wide and per user, under ''~/.font.conf'',
ok?

We need that into ''~/.font.conf'' there is a new tag for the
enabled/disabled fonts, so when an client application to fontconfig
queries fontconfig for the available fonts, those tagged as disabled are
hidden from the applicatin request. So the user can make a complete
customization for his needs, hidding from his applications the fonts
that he doesn''t need (or want) to use.

So, again, what are the directions for this modification? I believe that
both, the configuration module, which deals with the XML configuration,
and the matching module will need changes... Any tips for know? Just to
make thinks faster... Where to look first, or maybe, some explantion on
how all works together.

We at our company believe this could be a good improvement to
fontconfig... And we are excited to contribute to the improvement of
fontconfig!

Thanks for the attention!

Adriano Del Vigna de Almeida


Em Qua, 2003-12-17 ?s 19:03, Keith Packard escreveu:
> 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
> 
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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

Around 14 o''clock on Dec 18, Adriano Del Vigna de Almeida wrote:
> We need that into ''~/.font.conf'' there is a new tag for
the
> enabled/disabled fonts, so when an client application to fontconfig
> queries fontconfig for the available fonts, those tagged as disabled are
> hidden from the applicatin request. So the user can make a complete
> customization for his needs, hidding from his applications the fonts
> that he doesn''t need (or want) to use.
2.2.92 has some infrastructure for that already in the <selectfont>
element.  That contains <acceptfont> and <rejectfont> elements. 
Right now,
the only thing you can stick inside of those is <glob> elements which 
match file names with shell-style globbing.  I envision adding 
pattern-based elements, perhaps using the existing <test> elements in some
fashion.

You''ll need to whack fcxml.c to add new elements, extend the FcConfig 
structure to include the necessary reject/accept data structures and then 
whack fccfg.c to store and evaluate the structures, then whack fccache.c 
and fcdir.c where it currently calls FcConfigAcceptFilename to call into 
that new evaluation code.

-keith

Hello Folks,

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.

Any tips?

Thanks for the attention!

Adriano Del Vigna de Almeida


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