Monkeybread Software - MBS FileMaker Plugin: DynaPDF.SysFontInfo

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DynaPDF.SysFontInfo

Returns the most important properties of a system font.

Component	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	Server	FileMaker iOS SDK
DynaPDF	5.1	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

MBS( "DynaPDF.SysFontInfo"; PDF; Handle; Selector ) More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example

PDF The PDF reference returned from DynaPDF.New. $pdf

Handle Font Handle or zero for first call 0

Selector Which value to return. Can be Result, BaseType, CIDOrdering, CIDRegistry, CIDSupplement, DataOffset, FamilyName, FilePath, FileSize, Flags, Embeddable, Editable, FullName, Length1, Length2, PostScriptName, Index, IsFixedPitch, Style, UnicodeRange1, UnicodeRange2, UnicodeRange3 or UnicodeRange4. "FamilyName"

Parameter	Description	Example
PDF	The PDF reference returned from DynaPDF.New.	$pdf
Handle	Font Handle or zero for first call	0
Selector	Which value to return. Can be Result, BaseType, CIDOrdering, CIDRegistry, CIDSupplement, DataOffset, FamilyName, FilePath, FileSize, Flags, Embeddable, Editable, FullName, Length1, Length2, PostScriptName, Index, IsFixedPitch, Style, UnicodeRange1, UnicodeRange2, UnicodeRange3 or UnicodeRange4.	"FamilyName"

Result

Returns value or error.

Description

Returns the most important properties of a system font.
For first call, please use zero for the handle. Than you can get with Selector "Result" the handle of the next font. Loop until this next handle is zero.
Embeddable returns 1 or 0 depending on whether the font can be embedded or not.
FamilyName, FullName, FilePath and PostScriptName are returned in unicode text if possible.

Examples

Get Family name of first font:

MBS( "DynaPDF.SysFontInfo"; $pdf; 0; "FamilyName" )

List System Fonts by adding records to a table with font names:

Set Variable [$Handle; Value:0]
Loop
#Get values
Set Variable [$NextHandle; Value:MBS("DynaPDF.SysFontInfo"; $pdf; $Handle; "Result")]
Exit Loop If [$NextHandle = 0]
New Record/Request
Set Field [System Font Info::FamilyName; MBS("DynaPDF.SysFontInfo"; $pdf; $Handle; "FamilyName")]
Set Field [System Font Info::Embeddable; MBS("DynaPDF.SysFontInfo"; $pdf; $Handle; "Embeddable")]
Commit Records/Requests [Skip data entry validation; No dialog]
#Next
Set Variable [$Handle; Value:$NextHandle]
End Loop

Example Databases

DynaPDF/System Font Info

Blog Entries

Release notes

Version 10.5
- Added DynaPDF.GetAnnotationsAsJSON, DynaPDF.GetBookmarksAsJSON, DynaPDF.GetColorSpacesAsJSON, DynaPDF.GetDocInfoAsJSON, DynaPDF.GetEmbeddedFilesAsJSON, DynaPDF.GetFieldsAsJSON, DynaPDF.GetFontsAsJSON, DynaPDF.GetImportDocInfoAsJSON and DynaPDF.SysFontInfoAsJSON functions.

Created 21st March 2015, last changed 23th March 2015

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