Re: Getting A Font's Name

[James W. Walker]

"kevin schachter" <address@hidden> wrote:

> I have used FreeType1 on my website wantedfonts.com to create sample 
> screenshots interactively. I use PHP, GD and FreeType for this. One 
> feature I need is the ability to get a fonts name from its ttf file. 
> I have looked through the Font Documentation found on Adobe, Apple 
> and Microsoft and have absolutely no clue. Is this feature built 
> into FreeType? Sample code would be nice.

I just joined this list, and I don't really know much about FreeType, 
but I've been reading Apple's documentation about how to extract such 
information from a TrueType font.  Which name do you want?  The 
'name' table may contain a PostScript name, a Mac font family name, 
and a "full" name, possibly with variants for different platforms, 
languages, and encodings.  For instance if you're looking at the bold 
italic version of Palatino, I think the full name would be "Palatino 
Bold Italic", the family name would be "Palatino", and the PostScript 
name would be "Palatino-BoldItalic".
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