How can I obtain font properties thru a font file (*.otf;*.ttf or PostScript fonts)?
Kurt Kubing 0 Newbie Poster
Hiroshe 499 Posting Whiz in Training
Will, I'd personally open 2 sample files for all three types in a hex editor, and see if I can find the propery values in them and try and find a pattern to where they are located. After that I would write a program to open the file up, index the those locations and extract the data. There also may be some kind of font api out there. Why not do a quick google search? Hey, look at the first result!
Kurt Kubing 0 Newbie Poster
Hi, Hiroshe,
I am honestly thankful & grateful to your very--EXTRA--quick reply to my thread. I have actually done before what you are suggesting me. My code succeeded in some font files but it failed in other font files. Ain't there a standard font header structure that we can use to obtain the information we want? For example, there is a BITMAPFILEHEADER or BITMAPCOREHEADER for obtaining a bitmap information from a bitmap file.
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
If you are on MS-Windows why not just use win32 FONT structure and call win32 api functions to populate it. This might help you.
Dream2code 12 Junior Poster
i agree with ancient Dragon , You can call Win32 API .
One request to you, while asking for any help reagarding coding
please mention the ENVIRONMENT and COMPILER you are using.
Below link gives some hint:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/GDI/fontnamefromfile.aspx
Hiroshe 499 Posting Whiz in Training
One request to you, while asking for any help reagarding coding
please mention the ENVIRONMENT and COMPILER you are using.]
Unless of couse your writting portible (and standard) code that should run on any compiler/OS. :)
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
Unless of couse your writting portible (and standard) code that should run on any compiler/OS. :)
But that's rarely the case, especially with newbe programs. And IMHO its always a good idea to mention them in any case.
Hiroshe commented: Can't argue with that +2
Dream2code 12 Junior Poster
In Different environments different API's are there.
It's quite difficult to do read fonts and all core C.That's what i meant.
Basically we need to understand the file format.If we can get this this it's done.
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