Thanks! This is exactly what I needed. The step-by-step description should be enough. I will try it tomorrow.
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 10:13:01 +1300 Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:37:04 +0200, John Found wrote: > > > Recently I am working on text rendering with FreeType. > > > > The FreeType function FT_New_Face uses the filename of the font, but > > I want more flexible approach with font substitution and suggesting > > fonts by some pattern, for example "serif", "monospaced", "bold", etc. > > There is a sequence of Fontconfig calls I use as standard. For > a C version, see the load_sub_face routine here > <https://github.com/ldo/dvdauthor/blob/master/src/subfont.c>. The steps > are: > > * call FcNameParse to parse the user-provided string into an > FcPattern > * Do an FcConfigSubstitute on the pattern to apply a user-default > configuration > * Also call FcDefaultSubstitute on the pattern to apply a > hard-coded default configuration > * Call FcFontMatch to actually find a matching font > * Then FcPatternGetString(... FC_FILE ...) on the match to get the > pathname of the font file. > > For a Python equivalent, see the Face.find_face method here > <https://github.com/ldo/python_freetype/blob/master/freetype.py>. > > Fontconfig pattern strings can take such useful forms as > “palatino:style=italic:weight=1000"”, “sans-serif:slant=500” etc. > > _______________________________________________ > Freetype mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype -- John Found <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
