Re: [ft] Get list of available TTF fonts in system?

[Werner LEMBERG]

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>> To check a single file, open it with FreeType, then call
>> FT_IS_SCALABLE to test whether it is an outline font.  However,
>> getting a list of file names is not the job of this library; you
>> must handle that by yourself.
> 
> The latter one seems to be a bit strange for me. So do I manually
> have to check out /usr/local/fonts and its subdirectories to find
> out what is available?

Yes, but you should rather use a library which does this for you,
e.g. fontconfig.  No need to reinvent the wheel.


    Werner