fm
2.6 The fm
module has been deprecated for removal in Python 3.0.
single: Font Manager, IRIS single: IRIS Font Manager
This module provides access to the IRIS Font Manager library. It is available only on Silicon Graphics machines. See also: 4Sight User's Guide, section 1, chapter 5: "Using the IRIS Font Manager."
This is not yet a full interface to the IRIS Font Manager. Among the unsupported features are: matrix operations; cache operations; character operations (use string operations instead); some details of font info; individual glyph metrics; and printer matching.
It supports the following operations:
init()
Initialization function. Calls fminit
. It is normally not necessary to call this function, since it is called automatically the first time the fm
module is imported.
findfont(fontname)
Return a font handle object. Calls fmfindfont(fontname)
.
enumerate()
Returns a list of available font names. This is an interface to fmenumerate
.
prstr(string)
Render a string using the current font (see the setfont
font handle method below). Calls fmprstr(string)
.
setpath(string)
Sets the font search path. Calls fmsetpath(string)
. (XXX Does not work!?!)
fontpath()
Returns the current font search path.
Font handle objects support the following operations:
font handle.scalefont(factor)
Returns a handle for a scaled version of this font. Calls fmscalefont(fh, factor)
.
font handle.setfont()
Makes this font the current font. Note: the effect is undone silently when the font handle object is deleted. Calls fmsetfont(fh)
.
font handle.getfontname()
Returns this font's name. Calls fmgetfontname(fh)
.
font handle.getcomment()
Returns the comment string associated with this font. Raises an exception if there is none. Calls fmgetcomment(fh)
.
font handle.getfontinfo()
Returns a tuple giving some pertinent data about this font. This is an interface to fmgetfontinfo()
. The returned tuple contains the following numbers: (printermatched, fixed_width, xorig, yorig, xsize, ysize, height, nglyphs)
.
font handle.getstrwidth(string)
Returns the width, in pixels, of string when drawn in this font. Calls fmgetstrwidth(fh, string)
.