Load a font from a specific path

["Robert Kerr" <rakerr sandia gov>]

Hi all,
I was browsing the archives of the mailing list, and found an email that 
asked the same question I'm interested in:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-i18n-list/2008-June/msg00015.html

It's entitled: Load a font from a specific file path

Anyway, the gist of it is that I want to be able to specify that a given 
application, which uses pango for its fonting capabilities, have the 
capability to use a font file that is distributed with the application. 
This is important in our testing mechanism, because some of our tests are 
based on graphics output, and if we allow the system to pick the "closest" 
font, then the graphics won't necessarily be identical.

Anyway, after reading through the discussion about the above-listed 
question, it seems that there isn't an easy way to do this yet.  Is that 
correct?

And if so, is there a slightly-less-easy way of doing it?

Thanks

--
-bob

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That will do them in. - Bradley's Bromide
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