c:\Windows\Fonts is already a place where it will search.
https://github.com/OpenImageIO/oiio/blob/master/src/libOpenImageIO/imagebufalgo_draw.cpp#L724
You can see here all the directories that it will search for fonts. There are a
whole lot of standard areas on different systems.
-- lg
> On Sep 14, 2021, at 10:12 AM, Phil Miller <philip.mil...@sri.com> wrote:
>
> If your working directory is somewhere on c:\, then you should be able to use
>
> --text:font=/Windows/Fonts/Arial.tff
>
> And then, if necessary, use absolute paths to the input and output files.
>
>
> From: Oiio-dev <oiio-dev-boun...@lists.openimageio.org> On Behalf Of Larry
> Gritz
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 1:00 PM
> To: OpenImageIO dev list <oiio-dev@lists.openimageio.org>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Oiio-dev] oiiotool --text:font
>
> Oh boy, that's tricky. The ':' separates options, but in this case, it's part
> of the filename.
>
> By any chance, does this work?
>
> --text:font=/C/Windows/Fonts/Arial.tff
>
> ??
>
> If not, I'll brew something up for you to fix. This is an unintended
> limitation.
>
>
>
> On Sep 14, 2021, at 8:57 AM, Steven Caron <car...@gmail.com
> <mailto:car...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Again!
>
> I can't seem to set the font option of the --text command. It doesn't seem to
> like my windows drive syntax with a colon. I think the parser is expecting
> another option/modifier. Example...
>
> oiiotool in.exr --text:font=C:/Windows/Fonts/Arial.ttf test -o out.exr
> oiiotool ERROR: text : Could not set font face to "C"
>
> I tried wrapping the path in quotes without luck.
>
> Thanks,
> Steven
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