Thread-topic: Determine whether font is monospace or proportional?
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Chris Branch wrote:
> To elaborate a bit more, I need to store font information in a file such that
> I have enough information to: 1) request the same font again when the file is
> re-loaded, or 2) pick a good substitute if the font is not available. Storing
> only the font name would probably be OK for #1, but would not work so well for
> #2. Also, this file format will be cross platform (Windows and Mac). Windows
> does this for me automatically because, to request a font in Windows, I have
> to fill out a LOGFONT structure that contains: font name, character set,
> family, pitch (monospace/proportional width), etc. Windows finds the "best
> match" by weighing each of the properties I request against the available
> fonts on the machine (name and character set are most important in Windows and
> therefore contribute the most weight).
>
> So, I'm looking for a way to find similar information for given font on OS X
> so that I can persist this information in my file. I asked about monospace
> vs. proportional width as a starting point with the intention I would move on
> from there once I found that answer. But I'm not off to a very good start
> :-). I know nothing about the internals of .ttf files (or other font
> formats), and to be honest, I had hoped to keep it that way. But it sounds
> like that may not be possible.
On the Mac-side, check out FontSync. This has been in the system for a while
now, and its purpose is to provide a condensed summary of a given font for
inclusion in a document, such that when that document is opened on another
machine the correct font is chosen.
Dave
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