[Font] Getting font folder on all platforms

Flamaros flamaros.xavier at gmail.com
Fri Sep 6 13:54:52 PDT 2013


On Friday, 6 September 2013 at 16:05:43 UTC, Tourist wrote:
> On Thursday, 5 September 2013 at 19:48:07 UTC, Flamaros wrote:
>> I am searching the right way to find fonts folder for each 
>> platforms (Windows, linux, macOS X)
>>
>> On Windows it's generally "C:\Windows\Fonts" but a direct 
>> access seems brutal, it's certainly expected to retrieve this 
>> path by using some register keys?
>>
>> Is someone know how it works for linux and/or macOS X?
>>
>> I need to be able to retrieve fastest as possible the right 
>> file from the font and family name.
>
> Windows: call SHGetKnownFolderPath with FOLDERID_Fonts as rfid.
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb762188%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Nice, thx.

Do you know if there is a table of fonts and there family, or 
need open all font file my self?


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