Bug 109

Summary:	additional font type identification information necessary
Product:	fontconfig	Reporter:	Jungshik Shin <jshin>
Component:	library	Assignee:	Keith Packard <keithp>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	high	CC:	danglassey
Version:	2.2
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Jungshik Shin 2003-08-31 19:51:49 UTC

bug 105 deals with truetype tables and otlayout tables. Sometimes, it's
necessary to tell whether a font is truetype, type1, or cid-keyed font (or any
other type supported). For instance, in Mozilla
(http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217719), we want to tell whether
'Symbol' font installed on the system is T1 or TTF.

Comment 1 Jungshik Shin 2004-01-20 05:30:46 UTC

http://www.freetype.org/pipermail/devel/2003-December/009966.html

The thread beginning with the above article has some useful information about
font type ID.

Comment 2 Daniel Glassey 2004-07-12 13:00:50 UTC

added me to CC. Thread looks interesting, will look for/at this func.

Comment 3 Keith Packard 2004-12-04 16:26:15 UTC

I've added a 'fontformat' entry which just uses the FT_Get_X11_Font_Format
function results directly (when available).

I get 'BDF', 'PCF', 'Type 1' or 'TrueType' for the fonts I have on my machine.

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