Re: [ft] FT_Face::family/style name

[mpsuzuki]

Hi,

Could you describe the difficulty you have in more detail?

The vanilla FT2 does not load whole of TTC/TTF to memory,
it reads the content of TTF partially step-by-step, and
setup the informations in FT_Face. Do you think still its
memory consumation is too large? Or, do you think
FT_Open_Face() does too many works for your purpose (e.g.
bitmap strikes checking, glyph number counting, etc,
although their memory consumation is not so serious) and
you want to read "name" table directly to obtain its
family and subfamily entries?

# BTW, if you're working with softwares around freedesktop.org,
# using fontconfig might be most easiest way to obtain the
# list of pairs of the font file pathname and its family name. 

Regards,
mpsuzuki

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:12:54 +0000
Nik Napalm <address@hidden> wrote:

>
>Hi all,
> Is there anyway in FreeType to acquire the information gained from 
> family_name/style_name wihtou having to the load the font into memory ? the 
> reason I ask is I'd like to enumerate a list of fonts, however, doing a 
> FT_New_Face for each font can be a slow process depending on the number of 
> fonts.
> 
>So, can anyone recomend using FreeType itself, else some other method of 
>getting name(s)( from TTC) in a more optimised manner ?
> 
>Regards,
> 
>Nik.