[TriLUG] Font encoding?

[Brian McCullough]

On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 02:41:45AM +0000, David Landry wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2014, at 9:44 AM, Brian McCullough <bdmc at buadh-brath.com<mailto:bdmc at buadh-brath.com>> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 09:14:09AM -0500, Brian McCullough wrote:
> I have been working with a couple of different PHP PDF generators, and
> have encountered this issue a few times, but managed to work around it
> mostly.
> 
> The question that keeps bothering me is, how do you tell what the
> encoding of a particular TTF file is?
> 
> Sometimes, these packages require that you tell it what the font "name"
> and encoding are, even though I give it the exact path to the file.
> 
> Since nobody seems to have been able to answer my question above, do you
> have any suggestions for better places to ask this question?
> 
> StackOverflow?
> 
> Actually, looks like someone beat you to it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5668901/php-how-to-read-title-of-font-from-ttf-file

Thank you both.  A couple of very interesting pages that certainly help
with the name question, but, unfortunately, no help with the "encoding
name" question.


Oh well.


I will keep hunting.


Brian