Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.112 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.78; '*S*': 0.00; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:How': 0.10; '>on': 0.16; 'did,': 0.16; 'dump': 0.16; 'message-id:@4ax.com': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'types,': 0.16; 'width,': 0.16; 'win7': 0.16; 'subject:python': 0.16; 'thursday,': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'thu,': 0.19; 'handles': 0.22; 'spread': 0.22; 'directory.': 0.24; 'keyboard': 0.24; 'manager.': 0.24; 'specify': 0.24; 'url:home': 0.24; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'character': 0.29; 'subject:) ': 0.29; "doesn't": 0.30; 'font': 0.31; 'front': 0.32; 'worked': 0.33; 'screen': 0.34; 'maybe': 0.34; 'subject:the': 0.34; 'could': 0.34; 'problem': 0.35; 'created': 0.35; 'one,': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; "didn't": 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'two': 0.37; 'received:76': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'called': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'even': 0.60; 'skip:u 10': 0.60; 'eventually': 0.60; 'lost': 0.61; 'entire': 0.61; 'simple': 0.61; 'back': 0.62; 'july': 0.63; 'atm': 0.68; 'nobody': 0.68; 'rendering': 0.68; 'study': 0.69; 'user,': 0.69; 'family': 0.73; 'jul': 0.74; 'subject:get': 0.81; 'directories,': 0.84; 'fonts': 0.84; 'hand.': 0.84; 'history,': 0.84; 'subject:Platform': 0.84; 'thing...': 0.84; 'tube': 0.84; '2013': 0.98 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python? Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 20:13:26 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn References: <3d97de86-f690-40ad-aba8-972120af7ff3@googlegroups.com> <5768a87e-1544-45d8-bd4b-bd8e78c711ae@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-76-253-100-33.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 30 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1373588017 news.xs4all.nl 15897 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:57076 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:50479 On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:25:55 -0700 (PDT), Metallicow declaimed the following: >On Thursday, July 11, 2013 12:47:01 PM UTC-5, Nobody wrote: >> >> What makes you think the system *has* a system font directory? > >Way back when I was kid, I remember a computer that had two colors and 1 built-in font and no mouse. Heck the keyboard was even attached in front a tube screen box. >Wow... those were the days. And to think I hated that thing... > >If the OS doesn't *have* a dedicated system fonts dir that is accessable by the user, then I am not that much interested in dealing with it. Rendering a font from a other location will eventually be worked in, but that isn't the problem at hand. Back in history, my W98se box ran a program called Adobe Type Manager. I had fonts spread across a number of directories, in bitmap, TrueType, and PostScript formats. My WinXP box ran a program called "Font Reserve", using the same mishmash of directories -- but it created shortcuts of the active fonts in the system fonts directory. Unfortunately, it didn't support "Multiple Master" font types, which ATM did, so I lost access to one font family ("Multiple Master" fonts were configurable -- for a simple one, one could maybe specify stroke width, and character width, then generate a "use" font from those specs). I need to study how Win7 handles fonts, since I don't want to dump the entire mishmash into the system directory. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/