Re: pango and Type 1 FontName

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 09/23/2009 11:07 AM, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> I wonder, is there a way to get hold of the FontName for a Type 1
> font, given the family name as returned by a user's selection of a
> font in the GTK font selector?
>
> E.g. the user selects "Bodoni MT" and we want to map this to the
> FontName in the afm file, "BodoniMT", for the benefit of a
> traditional PostScript-oriented application.  (Simply removing
> spaces would work in this case but I'm not sure if it would work
> in general.)
>
> Or if this is not something pango handles, might fontconfig do the
> job?

At this time neither pango nor fontconfig does that.  Though there are plans 
for fontconfig to expose Postscript family name in the future.

behdad


> Thanks.