Re: Extracting hte font name from a TrueType font file

[Steve Holden]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

Steve Holden wrote:

>Does anyone have a Python recipe for this?

>>>from PIL import ImageFont
f = ImageFont.truetype("/windows/fonts/verdanai.ttf", 1)
f.font.family

'Verdana'

>>>f.font.style

'Italic'

Thanks so much, Fredrik. The reason I asked is because I found the
specification completely opaque ...

regards
Steve
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[Aaron \Castironpi\ Brady]

On Sep 18, 7:48*pm, Steve Holden <[e-mail]:

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

Steve Holden wrote:

Does anyone have a Python recipe for this?

>>from PIL import ImageFont
f = ImageFont.truetype("/windows/fonts/verdanai.ttf", 1)
f.font.family

'Verdana'

>>f.font.style

'Italic'

Thanks so much, Fredrik. The reason I asked is because I found the
specification completely opaque ...

regards
*Steve
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Steve Holden * * * *[phone] * [phone]
Holden Web LLC * * * * * * *http://www.holdenweb.com/

Here's the code to parse the spec.

#customize path
f= open( '\\windows\\fonts\\arial.ttf', 'rb' )
from struct import *

#header
shead= Struct( '>IHHHH' )
fhead= f.read( shead.size )
dhead= shead.unpack_from( fhead, 0 )

#font directory
stable= Struct( '>4sIII' )
ftable= f.read( stable.size* dhead[ 1 ] )
for i in range( dhead[1] ): #directory records
dtable= stable.unpack_from(
ftable, i* stable.size )
if dtable[0]== 'name': break
assert dtable[0]== 'name'

#name table
f.seek( dtable[2] ) #at offset
fnametable= f.read( dtable[3] ) #length
snamehead= Struct( '>HHH' ) #name table head
dnamehead= snamehead.unpack_from( fnametable, 0 )

sname= Struct( '>HHHHHH' )
for i in range( dnamehead[1] ): #name table records
dname= sname.unpack_from(
fnametable, snamehead.size+ i* sname.size )
if dname[3]== 4: #key == 4: "full name of font"
s= unpack_from(
'%is'% dname[4], fnametable,
dnamehead[2]+ dname[5] )[0]
print dname, s

This outputs:

(0, 3, 0, 4, 10, 318) A r i a l
(1, 0, 0, 4, 5, 4081) Arial
(3, 1, 1033, 4, 10, 318) A r i a l

First 3 fields:

0, 3, 0= Unicode, Unicode 2.0, English
1, 0, 0= Macintosh, Default, English
3, 1, 1033= Windows, Version 1.1, Language "1033"

[Steve Holden]

Aaron "Castironpi" Brady wrote:

On Sep 18, 7:48 pm, Steve Holden <[e-mail]:

>Fredrik Lundh wrote:

>>Steve Holden wrote:
Does anyone have a Python recipe for this?
>from PIL import ImageFont
>f = ImageFont.truetype("/windows/fonts/verdanai.ttf", 1)
>f.font.family
'Verdana'
>f.font.style
'Italic'

Thanks so much, Fredrik. The reason I asked is because I found the
specification completely opaque ...

regards
Steve
--
Steve Holden [phone] [phone]
Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/

Here's the code to parse the spec.

#customize path
f= open( '\\windows\\fonts\\arial.ttf', 'rb' )
from struct import *

#header
shead= Struct( '>IHHHH' )
fhead= f.read( shead.size )
dhead= shead.unpack_from( fhead, 0 )

#font directory
stable= Struct( '>4sIII' )
ftable= f.read( stable.size* dhead[ 1 ] )
for i in range( dhead[1] ): #directory records
dtable= stable.unpack_from(
ftable, i* stable.size )
if dtable[0]== 'name': break
assert dtable[0]== 'name'

#name table
f.seek( dtable[2] ) #at offset
fnametable= f.read( dtable[3] ) #length
snamehead= Struct( '>HHH' ) #name table head
dnamehead= snamehead.unpack_from( fnametable, 0 )

sname= Struct( '>HHHHHH' )
for i in range( dnamehead[1] ): #name table records
dname= sname.unpack_from(
fnametable, snamehead.size+ i* sname.size )
if dname[3]== 4: #key == 4: "full name of font"
s= unpack_from(
'%is'% dname[4], fnametable,
dnamehead[2]+ dname[5] )[0]
print dname, s

This outputs:

(0, 3, 0, 4, 10, 318) A r i a l
(1, 0, 0, 4, 5, 4081) Arial
(3, 1, 1033, 4, 10, 318) A r i a l

First 3 fields:

0, 3, 0= Unicode, Unicode 2.0, English
1, 0, 0= Macintosh, Default, English
3, 1, 1033= Windows, Version 1.1, Language "1033"

Well you clearly understood it better than *I* did!

regards
Steve
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Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/