Re: Question about Gnome-Print-0.5 & Fonts

[Emmanuele Bassi <bassi-e libero it>]

* Tom Cross <tomc kendeco com>:

> > Yet, I don't think it's a fault of the perl binding: seems more like a
> > bug of libgnomeprint to me. I'm looking into GtkSourceView in order to
> > write a binding for this widget, and they use "find_closest_from_full_name"
> > inside their code.
>
> Hmm.  It's not working for me.  I changed the line to be:
>
> my $font = Gnome2::Print::Font->find_closest_from_full_name("Times New
> Roman 24");
>
> and I'm still getting this result:
>
> Found: Andale Mono Regular

Which is, I guess, also the first font also returned by the
Gnome2::Print::Font::list class method.

If find_closest_* methods fail in finding a font whose name it's the
passed one, I believe they return the first font inside the internal
fontlist. Since the bindings of Gnome2::Print::Font are pretty much
straightforward, it's all about libgnomeprint.

I've just tested this, using "Times New Roman 24", which returns,
instead, an "Agency FB" on my system; then, I've tried with "Monospace
Regular 10", which, instead, succeded.

+++

Try using the "list" class method to retrieve the font names that
libgnomeprint understands (list, as family_list and style_list returns
an array of strings), and try passing those names to the find* methods.

Regards,
 Emmanuele.

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