Re: [ft] Different Values from Freetype Face

[mpsuzuki]

Hi,

Could you post sample program, or the result of "ftdump -n"
(in freetype2-demos) for your font? In my case, the result
of ftdump is same with your former case.

There is 1 face in this file.

----- Face number: 0 -----

font name entries
   family:     Arial Black
   style:      Regular
   postscript: Arial-Black

font type entries
   FreeType driver: truetype
   sfnt wrapped:    yes
   type:            scalable
   direction:       horizontal
   fixed width:     no
   glyph names:     yes
   EM size:         2048
   global BBox:     (-397,-628):(3456,2219)
   ascent:          2254
   descent:         -634
   text height:     2888
   glyph count: 669

font string entries
   copyright       [Macintosh]:
      "Digitized data copyright The Monotype Corporation 1991-1995. All rights 
reserved. Arial is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation which may be 
registered in certain jurisdictions."
   font family     [Macintosh]:
      "Arial Black"
   font subfamily  [Macintosh]:
      "Regular"
   unique ID       [Macintosh]:
      "Monotype - Arial Black Regular"
   full name       [Macintosh]:
      "Arial Black"
   version string  [Macintosh]:
      "Version 2.35"
   PostScript name [Macintosh]:
      "Arial-Black"
...

Regards,
mpsuzuki

On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 10:56:25 +0000
"Andreas Heinrich" <address@hidden> wrote:
>I'm used an older (2003) Freetype Version until now.
>Because of Unicode i changed to a newer Version (2007).
> 
>I load a Font via FT_New_Face into FT_Face...
> 
>In former FreeType.dll i get for some Fonts different Values for 
>FT_Face.family_name and
>FT_Face.style_name in comparison with the new version.
> 
>For example the font ariblk.ttf from windows: 
> 
>former : 
>FT_Face.family_name  : Arial Black
>FT_Face.style_name   : Regular
> 
>now : 
>FT_Face.family_name  : Arial 
>FT_Face.style_name   : Black
>
>For my application these changes are extremly distracting. Why these 
>parameters changed?
>Is it possible to get the old parameters with the newer Version?