Re: Loading application specific fonts

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

Shepherd, Jason F wrote:
> I've recently downloaded the gtk+ stable release and we have started using it for text layout in a 
> cross-platform environment (including windows).  We would like to load an application-specific font to 
> generate test images which are as close to identical as possible across all of the platforms.  What are the 
> best options for accomplishing this? (We don't want to necessarily require users to have administrative 
> privileges.)


Hi,

Right now, your best bet is to always use a Gtk+ build with the PangoFc
backend, and call FcConfigAppFontAddFile before initializing Gtk+.  In the
long term, there will be Pango API to do what you want cross-platform.  This
is the bug to monitor for the status of that work:

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347237

behdad

> Thanks,
>
> Jason Shepherd