Re: Loading a TTF font
Re: Loading a TTF font
- Subject: Re: Loading a TTF font
- From: John Stiles <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 20:01:16 -0700
For legal reasons, I probably cannot install the fonts. (We have a
license to use them in our software, but not to give them to
end-users.) I'm pretty sure I'm safe putting them in a temporary
directory, but putting them in a semi-permanent place on the user's
hard drive is probably a recipe for trouble.
Can I use Carbon code to activate the fonts, and have NSFont "see" the
fonts? And TTFs will work?
(FWIW I have no aversions to Carbon at all. I am not really a
language/API zealot. I just want stuff to work with a minimum of
headache. Usually that means Cocoa, but not always.)
On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 06:42 PM, Andrew Thompson wrote:
On Wednesday, Oct 8, 2003, at 20:23 America/New_York, Aki Inoue wrote:
John,
The ATS framework, our font management layer, can work with Windows
fonts.
You just have to install them in one of the folders for fonts.
Aki
On 2003/10/08, at 16:03, John Stiles wrote:
I'm working on a program which needs to load a font from a
Windows-origin ".TTF" or ".TTC" font, and turn it into an NSFont
that would be suitable for rendering text as bezier paths (in my
case, I use -NSBezierPath appendBezierPathWithGlyphs:count:inFont:).
Is this easily doable with Cocoa? Or am I looking at a painful
process?
If necessary I could preprocess the font to be more Mac-friendly in
some way, but that means wasting a few hundred K of disk space on
our CD for two copies of one font. In the worst case (the Japanese
version), that could mean up to 10MB gone. Not really thrilled about
that option :)
Thanks for any suggestions :)
If you don't want to install the fonts, you can activate arbitrary
fonts using these APIs:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/ATS/
atsfontsref_Reference/function_group_1.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/
TP30000037/Activating_and_Deactivating_Fonts
Its definately Carbon not Cocoa (well, actually I think its
technically part of Core Foundation), but Cocoa can call Carbon code
with no problems.
As to how hard it is to get right, I don't know...
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