Re: [Freetype] How to get a postscript font's name?

[David Turner]

Hi Tom,

Tom Kacvinsky a écrit :
> 
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, David Turner wrote:
> 
> >
> > By the way, is anybody interested in Postscript Version/Notice strings too 
> > ??
> > Does this deserve an API ??
> >
> 
> Yes, we should get this into FT.  The reason being the Unitype project.  If we
> (correction, you :) are going to be writing a tool for installing and 
> maintaining
> fonts, the version and notice strings should be used for purposes of catching
> duplicate fonts, etc...
>

Actually, regarding UniType, I was thinking about parsing the font files 
directly
since it's a lot faster than using FreeType to retrieve basic information of 
this
sort. That's what GnomePrint already does, by the way..


Cheers,

- David