Re: How to find a font

["A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis gmx de>]

* Thomas Bayen <tbayen bayen de> [2003-11-21 13:14]:
> I searched through my system fonts with "xfontsel".

Forget that. :-)

>   -misc-fixed-*-*-semicondensed-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Gtk2 doesn't use XLFDs. It uses fontconfig.

> Howe can I use this Font from perl-gtk?

Don't know if it's at all accessible. You can only use fonts
available via fontconfig.

Some information on fontconfig descriptors is available in
man fontconfig

>   my $fontdesc=Gtk2::Pango::FontDescription->from_string(
>     'fixed semicondensed 8'
>   );

Unfortunately they don't translate that easily.. see properties
in the fontconfig docs. Although I haven't quite gotten my head
about the fontconfig stuff yet either.

> Can someone give me a hint which font I should install that
> suits my problem?

You probably want some TTF font that works for your case -
although if you're going to distribute this, using a custom font
from a third party is probably not a good idea..

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