I am using the Photoshop's javascript API to find the fonts in a given PSD. Given a font name returned by the API, I want to find the actual physical font file that that corresponds to on the disc. This is all happening in a python program running on OSX so I guess I'm looking for one of: Some Photoshop javascript A Python function A...
Suppose I have the following CSS rule in my HTML. body { font-family:Calibri,Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,sans-serif; } How can I detect which one of the defined fonts was used in the user's browser? Edit for people wondering why I want to do this: The font I am detecting contains glyphs not available in other fonts and when the user does n...
What fonts do you use for programming, and for what language/IDE? I use Consolas for all my Visual Studio work, any other recommendations? ...
I'm not sure if it's my system, although I haven't done anything unusual with it, but I've started noticing incorrectly rendered characters popping up in web pages, text-files, like this: I have a hunch it's a related to the fairly recent trend to use unicode for everything, which is a good thing I think, combined with fonts that don'...
I'm writing a simple OpenGL application that uses GLUT. I don't want to roll my own font rendering code, instead I want to use the simple bitmap fonts that ship with GLUT. What are the steps to get them working? ...
I would really like to see a proportional font IDE, even if I have to build it myself (perhaps as an extension to Visual Studio). What I basically mean is MS Word style editing of code that sort of looks like the typographical style in The C++ Programming Language book: I want to set tab stops for my indents and lining up function si...
I'm quite used to my IDE setup in Delphi 7, where I have my comments rendered in italics. This doesn't appear to be possible in VS2008. There's only an option for bold font, not italics. Is there some kind of registry hack or font magic I can perform to get it to work? The font I'm using is Consolas, if that makes a difference. Edit: ...
The collection of fonts available to a web developer is depressingly limited. I remember reading long ago about TrueDoc, as a way of shipping fonts alongside a website - but it seems to have languished. Has anybody used this, or something similar? Is it supported by enough browsers? Am I missing a good solution? Note that a responsible ...
Note that this question continues from Is it possible to coax Visual Studio 2008 into using italics for comments? If the long question title got you, here's the problem: How to convert the style property of the Consolas Italic font to Bold without actually modifying any of its actual glyphs? That is, we want the font to be still...
Are there any lists of browser CSS defaults? (browser stylsheets in tabular form) I want to know the default font of textareas across all browsers and also for future reference. ...
I always run into the same problem when creating web pages. When I add a font that is larger then about 16-18px it looks terrible. Its jagged, and pixelated. I have tried using different fonts and weights, however I haven't had much luck there. Note: Its only in windows that it is like this. Mainly in Opera and FF also in IE7 but not q...
I'd like to use Segoe UI 9 pt on Vista, and Tahoma 8 pt on Windows XP/etc. (Actually, I'd settle for Segoe UI on both, but my users probably don't have it installed.) But, these being quite different, they really screw up the layout of my forms. So... is there a good way to deal with this? An example: I have a Label, with some blank spa...
Because Linux (and its variants) have a completely different set of fonts than Windows and Mac OS X, is there anyone with any experience of creating cross-platform font families - ideally finding equivalents to the common fonts found on the aforementioned operating systems? If so, what is the best route to take? ...
THis is a followup to my previous question "Font-dependent control positioning." It's an attempt to solve the real problem behind that question, perhaps in ways different than the one I was asking about. Example of the problem statement: I want a checkbox that says "Adjust prices by <X> <Y> after loading," where <X> is a number---adjust...
I have a MemoryStream with the contents of a Font File (.ttf) and I would like to be able to create a FontFamily WPF object from that stream WITHOUT writing the contents of the stream to disk. I know this is possible with a System.Drawing.FontFamily but I cannot find out how to do it with System.Windows.Media.FontFamily. Note: I will on...
I have downloaded a font that looks less than desirable if it is not anti-aliased. I can not figure out how to enable anti-aliasing in VS, I have changed the 'Smooth Edges of Screen Fonts' in the system performance options but that does not seem to help. VS2008 on XP SP3. What am I missing? ...
So I was reading those Windows Vista UI guidelines someone linked to in another question, and they mentioned that you should be able to survive a switch to 120 DPI. Well, I fire up my handy VM with my app installed, and what do we get... AAAAGH!!! MASSIVE UI FAIL! Everything's all jumbled: some containers aren't big enough for their tex...
Hi, I love the way Mac OS beautifully renders fonts (not just browsers). I was wondering if we could somehow get the same rendering in browsers running on Windows? Someone recommended sIFR but I guess that's useful when I need to use non-standard fonts? -- Swap ...
I want to use a specific foreign language font for a Blackberry application. How is such a font created and loaded onto the Blackberry device? For example: ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ...
Are there any free, third-party libraries for rendering arbitrarily scaled and rotated text in dot-NET applications? Although native GDI+ allows for text scaling and rotation, its methods for determining the rendered text's dimensions are not sufficiently precise and the differences in kerning as text is added to a rendered string make i...