Read font name from file?

Elsworth55

Is there any way to read the font name from a font file?

I tried the below solution, but this only returns the font family so if the font is Arial Bold it will only return Arial.

    int id = QFontDatabase::addApplicationFont(filePath);
    if (id != -1)
    {
        QStringList fontFamily = QFontDatabase::applicationFontFamilies(id);
        QFontDatabase::removeApplicationFont(id);
    }

Is there any way to get the full font name?

mrjj

Hi
I could not see any public access.

The path is stored in private class
https://code.woboq.org/qt5/qtbase/src/gui/text/qfontdatabase.cpp.html#QFontDatabasePrivate
in the struct

struct ApplicationFont {
        QString fileName;
        QByteArray data;
        QStringList families;
    };

I did look around to see if it was surfaced but to no avail.

Elsworth55

Thanks a lot for looking. It looks like there might not be an easy solution in Qt.

I'll have a look if there's a cross platform library that can read the full name.

mrjj

@elsworth55

Hi
Looking around i tripped over this
https://www.qtcentre.org/threads/26924-Retrieve-the-filename-of-a-QFont

but its windows bound.

Elsworth55

@mrjj Thanks a lot for looking, but unfortunately the application is for Windows, Mac and Linux so the solution would have to be cross-platform.