Re: [ft-devel] font names - win or mac platforms?

[suzuki toshiya]

Hi,

Please find src/sfnt/sfobjs.c::tt_face_get_name() to see
how the platform & encoding are selected.

Regards,
mpsuzuki

yuliana_zigangirova wrote:
> Thank you for the help with a previous question and
> now a similar question about font name choice made by Freetype.
> What platform does Freetype prefer when looking for Font Family Name
> and Postscript Name?  
> 
> As far as I see,  for the NettoBold.ttf and NettoTFMonoBold.ttf
> it seems to be inconsistent:
> 
> For Family Name I get  "Netto"  and "Netto Tf" respectively (which is Name
> ID 1
> Platform 1 - Macintosh)  
> and for Poscsript Name I get  "NettoBold" and "NettoTFMonoBold",
> which is Name ID 6 Platform 3 - Windows).
> Could you tell me what is an order in which you look for Font Family Name
> and
> Postscript Name?  Do you look for ID 20?
> 
> Thank you very much again,
> Yuliana