No news. The guy who does this (Vincent) is also involved with a Google Summer of Code project (before-floats implementation) which gets precedence over the font stuff. I may get to this myself later but nothing is likely to happen before August if noone else jumps in.
TrueType does indeed contain some fields which indicate some properties of a font. Type1 fonts are probably a little more difficult. I'm not up-to-date as to how far Victor Mote and Vincent Hennebert are with all the details on FOrayFont (the thing we're intending to adopt). I guess if you want to jump in and help, nobody will stop you. :-) On 29.06.2006 10:50:16 Stefan Scholl wrote: > Andreas L Delmelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 12, 2006, at 00:07, Stefan Scholl wrote: > >> I have to find a way to let a user install fonts. It would have > >> been nice to just import all the known TTF from his system. > > > > Yeah, it would rock! :) > > As a heads-up: Efforts are ongoing in that direction, no timeline, > > but high on our wish-list as well. > > Any news regarding that effort? > > > There _have_ to be a way to identify the style and weight. > > How does the OS know how to choose which font file? When it uses > the supplied subfamilies it has to "guess". > > I've found the following subfamilies: > > Bold > Bold Italic > Bold Oblique > Demibold > Demibold Italic > Demibold Roman > Extra Bold > Heavy > Italic > Light > Light Italic > Medium > Oblique > Regular > Roman > Ultra Bold > > > Is it really just guesswork? > > (Substring) > Italic, Oblique = Style Italic > Bold, Heavy = Weight Bold > > Other = normal Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
