FreeType-2.3.9 API Reference

Font Formats

Synopsis

The single function in this section can be used to get the font format. Note that this information is not needed normally; however, there are special cases (like in PDF devices) where it is important to differentiate, in spite of FreeType's uniform API.

FT_Get_X11_Font_Format

Defined in FT_XFREE86_H (freetype/ftxf86.h).


  FT_EXPORT( const char* )
  FT_Get_X11_Font_Format( FT_Face  face );

Return a string describing the format of a given face, using values which can be used as an X11 FONT_PROPERTY. Possible values are ‘TrueType’, ‘Type 1’, ‘BDF’, ‘PCF’, ‘Type 42’, ‘CID Type 1’, ‘CFF’, ‘PFR’, and ‘Windows FNT’.

input

face

Input face handle.

return

Font format string. NULL in case of error.

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