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Garrett · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 2:13 am Post subject: Getting Font Information?

Anyone know how to get information from a font? Such as author,
copyright info etc....???

Thanks,
-Garrett

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Maybe an API? Or perhaps using BINFILE and using a technique similar to
how the IDv3 tags are read/written with VDS in mp3's

I checked out @verinfo() but it didn't look like it would work.

Garrett · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 4:18 am Post subject:

I checked into using the binfile since that's how I figured out how to find
icons in an exe file, but I could not find any pattern like I did with the
icons. Sad

I'm not too good with the complicated API's. I've done figured out all the
simple API's that I could.

Thanks for the info though.

-Garrett

Skit3000 · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 8:37 am Post subject:

I opened a font with Notepad, and this was what one of the last lines of the file said:

Garrett · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 7:23 pm Post subject:

Thanks Skit for checking into this. Unfortunately, not all of the fonts
have that, nor is the info at the bottom of all the fonts. I found that
some have the info near the begining of the file, some in the middle
and some near the end. Some had the copyright symbol, some
didn't.

I don't think there's going to be a native VDS way to do this. Probably
an API out there somewhere for this one.

Thanks,
-Garrett

vdsalchemist · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:52 pm Post subject:

Hi Garrett,
I don't know how to do this. I have looked at all the Font API's in both the win32 help file and at MSDN and niether mention anything about this. Those tags must me specific to the application that created the font file Question

I will let you know if I find anything.

Skit3000 · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:53 pm Post subject:

Does the "Windows Font View" show who made the font, etc.? In that case, you could load the font with that, and just grab the info from that window...

vdsalchemist · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 5:30 pm Post subject:

Hi All,
Ok after a little more research it seems that Fonts in files with the *.fon which are standard fonts have a Version Info resource. Take a look at the script below...

Skit3000 · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 6:09 pm Post subject:

I was just thinking about that... Smile

Garrett · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 6:38 pm Post subject:

Well that's great, thanks DragonSphere. Smile

I had only tried that on
.ttf files, and they weren't in the font directory at the time. So I just
assumed that even the .fon files would not have the info either.

This at least gets me half way through what I was trying to do. Smile

Thanks again,
-Garrett

vdsalchemist · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 7:25 pm Post subject:

Garrett,
Here again even with the fact that *.fon's can have a Version resource does not mean that custom fonts will have this resource as part of the file. Just like the Version resource in DLL's and Exe's... Sad

vdsalchemist · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 7:53 pm Post subject:

Garrett,
I found the solution to the TTF's version info. I am working on a way to implement it in VDS Very Happy

Garrett · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 8:53 pm Post subject:

I understand that not all fonts will have the info. Basically, what I'm
trying to do is make a character map/browser that allows a programmer
to determine if he can use a specific font in a commercial or even
freeware program. When they click the font in the list and it bring up
the map of characters, I am trying to also get the copyright and other
info so the programmer can determine if he can use the font or if
he/she needs to contact the author for a license to use the font.

The map/browse part is done and working... Just trying to get the info
now if possible.

Any help is of course greatly appreciated. If not, then it's not a big loss
for my program.

Thanks,
-Garrett

vdsalchemist · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 9:36 pm Post subject:

Garrett,
That would be a cool utility Cool

Anyway you might be interested to know that some fonts also have WebSite addresses in their version information as well as Copyright information and Company name...

Dr. Dread · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:21 am Post subject:

Something like this is very handy. Currently I use "Arjan Mel's Font Viewer". It's amazing which info you
can obtain using that one...

Can be found here:
http://www.freelang.net/fonts/fonts_lnk.html

Greetz
Dr. Dread