Re: [cairo] pangocairo and fonts on win32

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

Hey,

Using uninstalled fonts with pango is not supported yet.

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=cairo_font_face_t

behdad

On 04/23/2009 02:22 AM, jstuehmer gmx net wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm using cairo and pango on win32/MinGW and would like to load a ttf-font from a file.
>
> Until now, the only way I was able to use the font was to install it via fontconfig, by copying the ttf-file to "My Documents/.fonts" and calling "fc-cache". I found that installing the font into windows system fonts was not sufficient even if fc-cache was called afterwards.
>
> Is there also a possibility to use a font in pango/cairo without installing it via fontconfig? I would like to supply an application without an installer and therefore would like to use a font from a ttf-file directly.
>
> I'm using the Gtk+ 2.12.9 win32 build from
> http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/
> in a MSYS/MinGW environment.
>
> Thank you,
>   Jan Stühmer