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Carl Gundel-2

Using stock fonts - Courier 10

Hey all!

I need to load a stock Windows font because when I print to a FAX appliance it extracts metatags with the phone number, to, from re, etc. using Courier 10 (which is a raster font).

I'm trying to do something like this, but without luck:

CgDisplay default loadQueryFont:'-*-courier-*-r-normal-*-*-10-*-*-p-*-*-*'

Any ideas?

-Carl

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Richard Sargent

Re: Using stock fonts - Courier 10

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On Monday, August 18, 2014 2:43:42 PM UTC-7, Carl Gundel wrote:

I'm trying to do something like this, but without luck:

CgDisplay default loadQueryFont:'-*-courier-*-r-normal-*-*-10-*-*-p-*-*-*'

Try evaluating something like this first:

(CgDisplay default listFonts: '-*-courier*-*-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*' maxnames: 1000) asArray.

(Note that the point size is multiplied by 10 to allow half point sizes. So, 10 point is coded as 100 in the above example.)

Carl Gundel-2

Re: Using stock fonts - Courier 10

Thanks Richard, I changed the courier* value to courier because I cannot use 'courier new' fonts, and it still gave me a couple of results to use. :-)

-Carl

On Monday, August 18, 2014 6:08:44 PM UTC-4, Richard Sargent wrote:

On Monday, August 18, 2014 2:43:42 PM UTC-7, Carl Gundel wrote:
I'm trying to do something like this, but without luck:

CgDisplay default loadQueryFont:'-*-courier-*-r-normal-*-*-10-*-*-p-*-*-*'

Try evaluating something like this first:

(CgDisplay default listFonts: '-*-courier*-*-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*' maxnames: 1000) asArray.

(Note that the point size is multiplied by 10 to allow half point sizes. So, 10 point is coded as 100 in the above example.)

Carl Gundel-2

Re: Using stock fonts - Courier 10

One other thing I notice. The only difference between your search template and the one I was using is that mine has a p in the 4th from last position. The fonts I was looking for have an m in that position so they were not being returned. Since your template has a * there, all the fonts were coming back. Do you know what the p and m stand for?

Thanks,

-Carl

On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 8:29:16 AM UTC-4, Carl Gundel wrote:

Thanks Richard, I changed the courier* value to courier because I cannot use 'courier new' fonts, and it still gave me a couple of results to use. :-)

-Carl

On Monday, August 18, 2014 6:08:44 PM UTC-4, Richard Sargent wrote:
On Monday, August 18, 2014 2:43:42 PM UTC-7, Carl Gundel wrote:
I'm trying to do something like this, but without luck:

CgDisplay default loadQueryFont:'-*-courier-*-r-normal-*-*-10-*-*-p-*-*-*'

Try evaluating something like this first:

(CgDisplay default listFonts: '-*-courier*-*-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*' maxnames: 1000) asArray.

(Note that the point size is multiplied by 10 to allow half point sizes. So, 10 point is coded as 100 in the above example.)

Richard Sargent

Re: Using stock fonts - Courier 10

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On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 5:51:13 AM UTC-7, Carl Gundel wrote:

One other thing I notice. The only difference between your search template and the one I was using is that mine has a p in the 4th from last position. The fonts I was looking for have an m in that position so they were not being returned. Since your template has a * there, all the fonts were coming back. Do you know what the p and m stand for?

I believe they stand for "proportional" and "mono-spaced".

For more details, look up "X Logical Font Description". A too short Wikipedia article is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_logical_font_description.