RE: Loading application specific fonts

["Shepherd, Jason F" <jfsheph sandia gov>]

Okay.  Thank you for your help...

Jason


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Behdad Esfahbod [mailto:behdad esfahbod gmail com] On
> Behalf Of Behdad Esfahbod
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 2:49 PM
> To: Shepherd, Jason F
> Cc: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Loading application specific fonts
>
> 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