Re: [ft] opening a face from limited information

[George Williams]

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 11:48, Philip Deets wrote:
> I could not get fontconfig to compile under windows with visual c++.  I do  
> not know what a os/2 table is or panose or anything like that.
> 
> Does anyone know a cross-platform way of getting all the fonts on a system  
> so I can open them all and check their names to try to find a match?
All fonts? or all installed fonts?

If all you want is all fonts then just write a program that recursively
searches all directories looking for files with standard extensions:

Finding installed fonts is harder since each system has its own way of
configuring directories to search for fonts.