Re: Font question

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 04/14/2009 03:50 PM, ikorot earthlink net wrote:
> Hi, ALL,
> My question is related to Pango/font. I don't know if this is the right place
> though...
>
> I'd like to retrieve all possible sizes for specific font name.
> I know there is a pango_font_face_list_sizes() and pango_font_description_get_size().
>
> My problem is:
>
> [code]
> int **sizes, *n_sizes;
> PangoFontDescription *desc = pango_font_description_from_string( name );
> pango_font_face_list_sizes( ..., sizes, n_size );
>
> What do I put instead of the dots?

You can get the list of font faces on the system using 
pango_font_family_list_faces() and pango_font_map_list_families(). 
Unfortunately there is no easier API to access font faces right now.

> Also my guess is that pango_font_description_get_size() returns only one size
> and not all available sizes for this specific font name. Am I right in this?

A font description does not necessarily correspond to any font on the system. 
 It's just a description.  pango_font_description_get_size() simply returns 
whatever was set using pango_font_description_set_size().

behdad

> Thank you.