NAME¶
PS_findfont — Loads a font
SYNOPSIS¶
#include <pslib.h>
int PS_findfont(PSDoc *psdoc, const char *fontname, const char *encoding, int
embed)
DESCRIPTION¶
Loads a font for later use. Before text is output with a loaded font it must be
set with
PS_setfont(3). This function needs the adobe font metric file in
order to calculate the space used up by the characters. A font which is loaded
within a page will only be available on that page. Fonts which are to be used
in the complete document has to be loaded before the first call of
PS_begin_page(3). Calling
PS_findfont(3) between pages will make that font
available for all following pages.
PS_findfont will try to load the file passed in the parameter
encoding.
Encoding files are of the same syntax as those used by
dvips(1). They
contain a font encoding vector (which is currently not used but must be
present) and a list of extra ligatures to extend the list of ligatures derived
from the afm file.
encoding can be NULL or the empty string if the default encoding
(TeXBase1) schall be used.
If the encoding is set to `builtin' then there will be no reencoding and the
font specific encoding will be used. This is very useful with symbol fonts.
All files will first be searched in the current directory and than in the
directories set by the parameter `SearchPath`.
RETURN VALUE¶
Returns the identifier of the font or zero in case of an error. The identifier
is a positiv number.
SEE ALSO¶
PS_setfont(3),
PS_begin_page(3)
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Uwe Steinmann <uwe@steinmann.cx>.