In order to access system fonts, you will need to write a bunch of Mac-Specific
platform code (similar to what exists for Win, IIRC). The code used to exist
in PoDoFo, but was removed.
Leonard
On 2/18/16, 10:08 AM, "Peter Petrov" <pe...@pdf3d.com> wrote:
>Yes, I've patched a little PoDoFo and podofotxt2pdf. Main idea is to use
>directly Freetype library like that:
>
> FT_Library library = document.GetFontLibrary();
> FT_Face face = 0;
> FT_Error error = FT_New_Face( library, fileName.GetString(), 0,
>&face ); // where fileName is direct file path to .TTF font
>
> if(!error && face)
> {
>....
>
>and podofotxt2pdf was able to produce PDF document with Annabelle inside.
>
>But the problem still exists:
>I would like to load, use and embed fonts by their family names.
>Use fonts which are installed in the system.
>For instance, user of my program can specify 'Arial' or 'Al Nile' font
>family name (not actual file name of font) and my program should work
>correctly.
>So, it is functional of "FontManager", enumerate fonts, get font
>information from its family name, etc.
>
>Yes, I agree that libfreetype is installed on Mac OSX by default.
>But libfontconfig is not installed.
>
>
>On 18.02.2016 17:32, Peter Petrov wrote:
>> On 18.02.2016 14:45, zyx wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> it's freetype library, which is used for manipulation of fonts. My
>>> Windows build doesn't have fontconfig, and it can embed "any" TTF font
>>> provided by GDI.
>>>
>>> I think this is the case when it's better to try than to guess. Mac
>>> builds can work differently, and I do not use Mac, thus it's up to you
>>> to give it a try without the fontconfig. My personal understanding of
>>> the fontconfig is that it's used for easier searching for fonts "on the
>>> disk", but I can be wrong here. Thus, try your application with PoDoFo
>>> being built without the fontconfig and you'll see whether it'll have
>>> any issues or not.
>>>
>>> Bye,
>>> zyx
>>>
>> I've built podofo 0.9.3 on Mac with PODOFO_NO_FONTMANAGER=ON CMake variable.
>> It was built fine.
>>
>> I'm trying to run podofotxt2pdf example program with hello_text.txt
>> (which just contains "Hello World" text):
>> ./podofotxt2pdf ./hello_text.txt out.pdf
>>
>> and I see output that font Arial is not found:
>> CRITICAL: No path was found for the specified fontname: Arial
>> Error 2 occured!
>>
>> PoDoFo encounter an error. Error: 2 ePdfError_InvalidHandle
>> Error Description: A NULL handle was passed, but initialized
>> data was expected.
>> Callstack:
>> #0 Error Source:
>> ...full_path.../podofo-0.9.3/tools/podofotxt2pdf/podofotxt2pdf.cpp:76
>>
>> Also, I tried other font names which are installed onto my system (I'm
>> sure, for instance, Annabelle, it could be viewed by Font Book application):
>> ./podofotxt2pdf ./hello_text.txt out_ann.pdf -fontname Annabelle
>>
>> ... the same error.
>> I can use only base14 fonts, like that:
>> ./podofotxt2pdf ./hello_text.txt out_ann.pdf -fontname Courier
>> works fine.
>>
>> Do you think that using font directly from .ttf file could solve this
>> problem?
>> (In this case I should modify podofotxt2pdf.cpp source file)
>>
>
>
>--
>Cheers,
>Peter, VTSL Support Team
>
>
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