Thank you for the quick reply and clarification. I did not realize / had overlooked that some font editing applications were synthesizing those glyph names.
- Stephan -----Original Message----- From: Ladislav Dudáš [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 25, 2017 12:11 AM To: 'Werner LEMBERG' <[email protected]>; [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ft] Reading Glyph Names Many TrueType fonts provides also glyph names, but this table is optional. Many program in that case synthetize glyph name from glyph index (for example glyph1 - glyphn) or there is possibly take Unicode value (again if available) and use Unicode name. - Laco. -----Original Message----- From: Freetype [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Werner LEMBERG Sent: piatok, 25. augusta 2017 8:58 To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ft] Reading Glyph Names > What modules / options are necessary to read all glyph names in > TrueType, OpenType and CFF font files? A default build of FreeType contains everything you need. > Currently, I can read glyph names from most font files but unable to > do so with fonts like Roboto-Regular.ttf or Arial.ttf. So I am not > sure what I am missing here. Those fonts don't contain glyph names at all. Werner _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
