39.7. fm — Font Manager interface¶
Deprecated since version 2.6: The fm module has been removed in Python 3.
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:
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fm.init()¶ Initialization function. Calls
fminit(). It is normally not necessary to call this function, since it is called automatically the first time thefmmodule is imported.
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fm.findfont(fontname)¶ Return a font handle object. Calls
fmfindfont(fontname).
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fm.enumerate()¶ Returns a list of available font names. This is an interface to
fmenumerate().
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fm.prstr(string)¶ Render a string using the current font (see the
setfont()font handle method below). Callsfmprstr(string).
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fm.setpath(string)¶ Sets the font search path. Calls
fmsetpath(string). (XXX Does not work!?!)
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fm.fontpath()¶ Returns the current font search path.
Font handle objects support the following operations:
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font handle.scalefont(factor) Returns a handle for a scaled version of this font. Calls
fmscalefont(fh, factor).
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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).
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font handle.getfontname() Returns this font’s name. Calls
fmgetfontname(fh).
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font handle.getcomment() Returns the comment string associated with this font. Raises an exception if there is none. Calls
fmgetcomment(fh).
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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).
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font handle.getstrwidth(string) Returns the width, in pixels, of string when drawn in this font. Calls
fmgetstrwidth(fh, string).
