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  font variants Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-14 11:29 -0700
    Re: font variants "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-06-14 21:35 -0400

#15285 — font variants

I notice on windows, a single font is composed of four or more *.ttf
files in C:\windows.

What glues these together to be considered as a single font in Java?

Does the OS have its own means?

is there something inside the ttf files crosslinking?

Is there a master file somewhere pointing to all the variants?

Does java look for fonts with similar names?
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In article <64bkt7dj3a8sgilg1gh7jc95ms50rqqm7i@4ax.com>,
 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:

> I notice on windows, a single font is composed of four or more *.ttf
> files in C:\windows.
> 
> What glues these together to be considered as a single font in Java?
> 
> Does the OS have its own means?
> 
> is there something inside the ttf files crosslinking?
> 
> Is there a master file somewhere pointing to all the variants?
> 
> Does java look for fonts with similar names?

At a guess, they are sub-family variations of style and weight. Lower 
quality fonts derive such variations from a single glyph outline, while 
higher quality fonts have separate definitions.

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