is there any way to get the facename from a TTF file ?

[adara]

is there any way to get the facename from a TTF file ? Thanx:rose:

[Chris Losinger]

CString ReadLongName(const char *pszFile)
{
CString csOutName;
static char lpszLongName[256];
unsigned i;
char namebuf[255];
FILE* fp;
unsigned short numNames;
long curseek;
unsigned cTables;
sfnt_OffsetTable OffsetTable;
sfnt_DirectoryEntry Table;
sfnt_NamingTable NamingTable;
sfnt_NameRecord NameRecord;

lpszLongName\[0\] = '\\0';
if ((fp = fopen (pszFile, "rb")) == NULL)
{
	return csOutName;
}

/\* First off, read the initial directory header on the TTF.  We're only
	\* interested in the "numOffsets" variable to tell us how many tables
	\* are present in this file.
	\*
	\* Remember to always convert from Motorola format (Big Endian to
	\* Little Endian).
\*/
fread (&OffsetTable, 1, sizeof (OffsetTable) - sizeof(sfnt\_DirectoryEntry), fp);
cTables = (int) SWAPW (OffsetTable.numOffsets);

for ( i = 0; i < cTables && i < 40; i++)
{
	if ((fread (&Table, 1, sizeof (Table), fp)) != sizeof(Table))
	{
		return csOutName;
	}

	if (Table.tag == tag\_NamingTable) /\* defined in sfnt\_en.h \*/
	{
	/\* Now that we've found the entry for the name table, seek to that
	\* position in the file and read in the initial header for this
	\* particular table.  See "True Type Font Files" for information
	\* on this record layout.
		\*/
		fseek (fp, SWAPL (Table.offset), SEEK\_SET);
		fread (&NamingTable, 1, sizeof (NamingTable), fp);
		numNames = SWAPW(NamingTable.count);
		while (numNames--)
		{
			fread (&NameRecord, 1, sizeof (NameRecord), fp);
			curseek = ftell(fp);
			if (SWAPW(NameRecord.platformID) == 1 &&
				SWAPW(NameRecord.nameID) == 4) 
			{
				fseek (fp, SWAPW (NameRecord.offset) +
					SWAPW(NamingTable.stringOffset) +
					SWAPL(Table.offset), SEEK\_SET);

				fread (&namebuf, 1, SWAPW(NameRecord.length), fp);
				namebuf\[SWAPW(NameRecord.length)\] = '\\0';
				lstrcpy(lpszLongName,namebuf);
				fseek (fp, curseek, SEEK\_SET);
				csOutName = lpszLongName;
			}
		}
		break;
	}
}

fclose (fp);

return csOutName;

}

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[adara]

great help , Thank you :rose: