Re: [Freetype] How to get a postscript font's name?

[Anthony Feick]

> Can someone tell me how to get a postscript font's name from its file
> using FT?  I see the definition of the T1_FontInfo structure in the FT
> docs, and it seems that that structure would give me the info I want,
> but I can't figure out how to get one of those puppies from the FT API.
> What am I missing?

If you look at the T1_FontInfo structure you actually only get the full_name 
and the family_name.  The postscript name, or FontName as it is tagged, is 
different.

I mentioned this issue back in May (subject 'postscript font names'):
http://www.freetype.org/pipermail/freetype/2001-May/subject.html

My workaround for it was to open up the font file & do a manual search for 
the FontName tag:

const char * const kFontName = "/FontName";

unsigned int GetT1PostScriptName(char* fontName)
{
   unsigned int headerSize = 5000;
   char buffer[5000];
   FILE * fontFILE = ::fopen(fontName, "rb");
   ::fread(buffer, 1, headerSize, fontFILE);
   char * tok = NULL;
   for (unsigned int i = 0; i < headerSize; ++i)
   {
       if (strncmp(buffer+i, kFontName, strlen(kFontName)) == 0)
       {
           tok = strtok(buffer + i + strlen(kFontName), " /\r\n\t");
           if(name)
               strcpy(name, tok);
           return strlen(tok);
       }
   }
   return 0;
}

Hopefully the indents stay so you can read the code.  I also had to do 
something similar to this to get the Encoding for T1 fonts.



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