Re: Loading font directly from font file

[Pradeep Botu <pradeep botu82 gmail com>]

 Actually I am loading normal arial.ttf and want to render bold characters algorithmetically.

 My doubt is whether AttrList synthesizes bold or help fontconfig to load bold font file itself.

 I want to know the api in lines to FT_Bitmap_Embolden in FreeType.

 Do I need to change FT2 backend a little to achieve this?

~Pradeep

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org> wrote:

On 12/12/2011 12:33 AM, Pradeep Botu wrote:
>   Thanks.. I will do it by overriding font logic of PangoFT2Fontmap.
>
>   I have another requirement. I want to synthesize bold characters using pango.
>   Using AttrList i am unable to get the bold characters.
>   How can I do the bold characters rendering

It's supposed to work already.  No idea why it doesn't.  Or maybe the FT2
backend was never updated to do that.  Shouldn't be hard.

behdad

> ~Pradeep
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> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org

> <mailto:behdad behdad org>> wrote:
>
>     An easier alternative would be to subclass the PangoFT2Fontmap and override
>     its font loading logic.
>
>     On 12/08/2011 01:35 AM, Pradeep Botu wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >   Thanks for prompt reply. I have done the same thing.
>     >   And then i have extracted FcPattern from font file using FcFreeTypeQuery.
>     >   Using FcPattern i have created FontDescription.
>     >
>     >   I have another requirement. I need to load a font file from memory.
>     >   ie, I need to lkoad font file data from memory I have provided.
>     >   Can I extract FcPattern from buffer or do I have any other way.
>     >
>     > ~Pradeep
>     >
>     > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org
>     <mailto:behdad behdad org>

>     > <mailto:behdad behdad org <mailto:behdad behdad org>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     On 12/07/2011 09:07 AM, Pradeep Botu wrote:
>     >     >
>     >     >  I am using Pango with ft2 backend.
>     >     >  For my application I have to load the font using font file directly.
>     >     >  Whether this feature request is still in implementation stage.
>     >     >  If there is a way to load font directly from font file please let
>     me know
>     >
>     >     Use FcConfigAppFontAddFile to add your font to the database before using
>     >     Pango.
>     >
>     >     behdad
>     >
>     >     > ~ Pradeep
>     >
>     >
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