[Devel] Re: Handling broken Type1 full name fields

[Tom Kacvinsky]

One of the things that is on my list of things to do is to get meaningful style
names from the /FontName entry.  Why?  Not all fonts have a FontInfo dictionary,
and if the /FontName is built using Adobe's recommendations, one can get the
family name + stylistic variation from the FontName.

For Instance, "/FontName AGaramond-Regular def" yields the font name of
AGaramon, plus the variant Regular...

And so on and so forth...

Of course, if there is a FontInfo dictionary, we could use that, and fall back
to /FontName parsing otherwise.

Just beware that not all fonts have FontInfo dictionaries...

Tom

On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Keith Packard wrote:

>
> I've a few fonts with broken names; the face name is common to
> several faces while the full name is unique, it doesn't simply contain the
> face name followed by the style.  Here's what I did to make these fonts be
> identifiable by name:
>