Re: reading font name from font file

[Rudy Velthuis [TeamB]]

08.06.2007 04:36:32, Mr. X wrote:

> Hi Rudy
> I did have a look at all those functions in MSDN before getting here
> :)
>
> The problem with those functions is that you need to assign a font
> (name et al) to the DC before being able to retrieve tjhe related
> data. However, how would i know the font names while adding them to
> the system font resource ? Thanks again

I have no idea how to read them from the fonts on disk. Followup to
.nativeapi.win32.
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[Mr. X]

Hi Rudy,

ok
Below, is what i am doing to load the fonts. Now i can read and load the
font file from disk but i need to know the name of the font .. and findfont
cannot supply font name and related data until i apply the font to the
concerned DC and so i have looped to what i was askin in the first place ..
how to get the font name from a font file ? :)

Thanks and Best Regards

if FindFirst(sPath + '*.*', faAnyFile, SR) = 0 then
begin
repeat
if SR.Attr <> faDirectory then
begin
Ext := AnsiUpperCase(ExtractFileExt(SR.Name));
if (Ext = '.TTF') then
begin
FExtList.Add(SR.Name);
Num := Num + AddFontResource(PChar(sPath + SR.Name));
end;
end;
until FindNext(SR) <> 0;
FindCLose(SR);
end;

if FExtList.Count > 0 then
begin
SendMessage(HWND_BROADCAST,WM_FONTCHANGE,0,0);
ListBox1.Items.Clear;
ListBox1.Items := Screen.Fonts;
end;

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[Jean-Marie Pierrard]

Hi Mr. X,

1) an undocumented way :

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
dwLength: DWORD;
hDll: THandle;
GetFontResourceInfo: function(wzFontName: PWideChar; var
dwBufSiz: DWORD;
wzBuffer: PWideChar; dwInfo: DWORD): DWORD; stdcall;
wzFontInfo: array[0..MAX_PATH] of WideChar;
begin
hDll := GetModuleHandle(gdi32);
GetFontResourceInfo := GetProcAddress(hDll,
'GetFontResourceInfoW');
dwLength := SizeOf(wzFontInfo);
GetFontResourceInfo('Arial.ttf', dwLength, wzFontInfo, 1);
ShowMessage('Font name = ' + wzFontInfo);
end;

2) a documented way :

Retrieving font name from TTF file
http://www.codeproject.com/gdi/fontnamefromfile.asp

Best regards,

Jean-Marie

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[Peter Below (TeamB)]

Mr. X wrote:

> Hi Rudy,
>
> ok
> Below, is what i am doing to load the fonts. Now i can read and load
> the font file from disk but i need to know the name of the font ..
> and findfont cannot supply font name and related data until i apply
> the font to the concerned DC and so i have looped to what i was askin
> in the first place .. how to get the font name from a font file ? :)

Go Googling for

TTF font file format

The first hits look quite promising...

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[Mr. X]

Hi Jean
Thanks ... this looks like what I need. Checking them both.

Best Regards

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[Mr. X]

Thanks Peter... looking at that too.

Best Regards

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Thanks, Peter.