From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-11-22T01:19:58+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get font info on *nix?

On 11/21/05, rmagick@gmail.com <rmagick@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Take a look near the top of the PDF::Writer main file
(lib/pdf/writer.rb) and you'll see what I do in order to find existing
fonts. It's imperfect and somewhat untested, but you may need to parse
the fonts themselves to determine the relevant information.

-austin
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