Re: How to tell if a font is fixed pitch, variable pitch, serifed, sans, etc.

[David Turner]

Hi Paul,

"Pedriana, Paul" a écrit :
> 
> I see that you can tell the family name of a font in FreeType2 and the
> style (bold, italic), but I can't see anywhere where I can find if the font
> is fixed pitch, sans serif, etc. I need this information so I can write a
> font server whereby clients can ask for a fixed pitch font, for example.
> 
Have a look at "face.face_flag". More specifically test it against the
FT_FACE_FLAG_FIXED_WIDTH constant which indicates monospaced/fixed-pitch
fonts..

You can also use the FT_IS_FIXED_WIDTH(face) macro too..

> Also, I noticed that bold and italic sytle flags are defined, but no others.
>
That's because "italic" and "bold" are the only styles that are widely
understood by graphics and windowing systems, as well as applications.

A font may have a different style, like "Condensed", "Hollow", etc.., but
this would appear in the "face.style_name" field as a string. There is no
reason to define other style bit flags for now, given that there is no
real established nomenclature about "original" style names..

> Another issue is that I can't find out how to enumerate the available
> characters in a font. I can load a given character, but can find no way
> to have it give me a list of available characters.
>
Yes, that part is missing for the moment... It should come very soon now :-)

Best Regards,

- David

> Any answers?
> 
> Paul