Re: TrueType font gallery

'lo,

I had almost the same problem (could be because I kinda borrowed some of this code in one of my scripts ;) ). The problem seemed to be Font::TTF::Font, $n->release() did the trick.

Don't forget that in your example you change the original reference, so you don't have any method 'release' anymore (I forgot that initially).

my $n = Font::TTF::Font->open($f) || $f;
$tmp = $n->{name} || $f if ref $n;
$tmp = $tmp->read->find_name(4) || $f if ref $n;
$n->release() if ref $n;
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This brought back memory usage from ~25mb (crash at 1020 fonts) to ~6mb (all my fonts, 1035).

december

PS: Where did you find the find_name(4) reference? I haven't found any documentation about the exact usage of find_name and the meaning of its $nid parameter...

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Re^2: TrueType font gallery by basje (Beadle) on Aug 09, 2005 at 20:43 UTC
Where did you find the find_name(4) reference? I haven't found any documentation about the exact usage of find_name and the meaning of its $nid parameter... This is specified in the truetype/opentype specs. tt/ot fonts are divided into tables. "name" is one of those tables. Look here for details: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/name.htm	[reply]
Re: Re: TrueType font gallery by Juerd (Abbot) on Jun 04, 2003 at 17:54 UTC
PS: Where did you find the find_name(4) reference? I haven't found any documentation about the exact usage of find_name and the meaning of its $nid parameter... I didn't. Just tried values until it returned something reasonable. One does stupid things when documentation is lacking. Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: TrueType font gallery by december (Pilgrim) on Jun 04, 2003 at 18:12 UTC
Heh. That's basically what I did, too. Nowhere a reference to those strings to be found. And, out of curiosity, does it work (or did time make this irrelevant)?	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: TrueType font gallery by Juerd (Abbot) on Jun 04, 2003 at 18:46 UTC
And, out of curiosity, does it work (or did time make this irrelevant)? It works :) Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }	[reply]