Yes, the font naming can be a bit random, but in general the last pieces are the weight and slant (but what the difference between italic and oblique is I'm not certain, they look the same to me...). Fortunately, we have regexen, so dealing with those issues should be feasible.

As to loading a "similar" font, I'd never knowingly do that; however, I am thinking of providing a "get_ttf_matching('string')" i/f that returns the list of fonts that start with 'string'.

And the URL you gave is what got me rolling down this hill in the first place, but thanks for the pointer!

In reply to Re^2: Win32 Module to return font filename from full font name/weight/slant ? by renodino
in thread Win32 Module to return font filename from full font name/weight/slant ? by renodino

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