Memory isn't an issue, it's mainly speed, I've no idea what is actually loaded
and processed when FT_New_Face is invoked, this isn't an issue when you have a
handfull of fonts, I was more concerned when enumerating thousands, so yes, I
guess it does too much works for my purpose, it's no big deal but would be very
very handy to scan a file just for it's name and have no other processing.
thanks,
Nik.> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:21:22 +0900> From: [email protected]>
To: [email protected]> CC: [email protected]> Subject: Re: [ft]
FT_Face::family/style name> > Hi,> > Could you describe the difficulty you have
in more detail?> > The vanilla FT2 does not load whole of TTC/TTF to memory,>
it reads the content of TTF partially step-by-step, and> setup the informations
in FT_Face. Do you think still its> memory consumation is too large? Or, do you
think> FT_Open_Face() does too many works for your purpose (e.g.> bitmap
strikes checking, glyph number counting, etc,> although their memory
consumation is not so serious) and> you want to read "name" table directly to
obtain its> family and subfamily entries?> > # BTW, if you're working with
softwares around freedesktop.org,> # using fontconfig might be most easiest way
to obtain the> # list of pairs of the font file pathname and its family name. >
> Regards,> mpsuzuki> > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:12:54 +0000> Nik Napalm
<[email protected]> wrote:> > >> >Hi all,> > Is there anyway in FreeType to
acquire the information gained from family_name/style_name wihtou having to the
load the font into memory ? the reason I ask is I'd like to enumerate a list of
fonts, however, doing a FT_New_Face for each font can be a slow process
depending on the number of fonts.> > > >So, can anyone recomend using FreeType
itself, else some other method of getting name(s)( from TTC) in a more
optimised manner ?> > > >Regards,> > > >Nik.
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