How to get font info on *nix?

[rmagick]

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.

 

[Austin Ziegler]

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

 

[Timothy Hunter]

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.

Verrrry interesting...Thanks, Austin!