Re: [ft] Reading Glyph Names

[Stephan Bouchard]

Thank you for the quick reply and clarification. 

I did not realize / had overlooked that some font editing applications were
synthesizing those glyph names.

- Stephan

-----Original Message-----
From: Ladislav Dudáš [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2017 12:11 AM
To: 'Werner LEMBERG' <address@hidden>; address@hidden
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Subject: RE: [ft] Reading Glyph Names

Many TrueType fonts provides also glyph names, but this table is optional.
Many program in that case synthetize glyph name from glyph index (for
example glyph1 - glyphn) or there is possibly take Unicode value (again if
available) and use Unicode name.

- Laco.

-----Original Message-----
From: Freetype
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Of Werner LEMBERG
Sent: piatok, 25. augusta 2017 8:58
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Subject: Re: [ft] Reading Glyph Names


> What modules / options are necessary to read all glyph names in 
> TrueType, OpenType and CFF font files?

A default build of FreeType contains everything you need.

> Currently, I can read glyph names from most font files but unable to 
> do so with fonts like Roboto-Regular.ttf or Arial.ttf. So I am not 
> sure what I am missing here.

Those fonts don't contain glyph names at all.


   Werner

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