Re: Pango and font path

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 09/18/2009 07:29 AM, Marcin Krystian Krzywonos wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm creating an application in GTK+ (It's GTK# actually but it doesn't
> matter. I know both libraries.) and there I've made some font
> selector. It gets font list from Pango. So, user selects a font and
> now I have to use file (i.e. *.ttf) of the selected font. How can I
> get font path?

The way to do this is a bit skewed currently.  If using the fontconfig 
backend, you can do this:

  - Use pango_context_load_font() to get a PangoFont of the desired description.

  - Get the font pattern and the file path out of it:

  const FcPattern *pattern = NULL;
  g_object_get (fcfont, "pattern", &pattern, NULL);
  if (pattern) {
    FcPatternGetString (pattern, FC_FILE, &s);
    ...
  }

behdad

> Best regards,
> MKK.