From: "rmagick@..." <rmagick@...>
Date: 2005-11-22T00:07:23+09:00
Subject: How to get font info on *nix?

I'm thinking about writing a Ruby extension for Linux/*BSD/Darwin to
enumerate all the fonts (Postscript and TTF) that are installed, along
with their attributes. Given such an extension I could write a Ruby
program to generate a custom ImageMagick font config file.

Can somebody enlighten me about where to start? Is there an existing
library I can leverage? I found fontconfig (www.fontconfig.org) but I'm
not sure that's right.