jiake
5th May 2010 09:02 UTC

Get locale font name of a TTF file
  I have tried the FontName plugin, but the name it got is not what I want. It got the English name of the font. If I copy a ttf file to the Fonts folder, first I will see the Chinese name of the font in Fonts of Control Pannel, and also in the registry key "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts" I can find that the Chinese name, such as "微软雅黑 (TrueType)", of the font. But when using the FontName plugin I will only got the name "Microsoft Yahei".

If I inst the ttf file to fonts directory, I just need to copy the ttf file to there and using:

SetOutPath $FONTS
File MSYH.TTF
System::Call "GDI32::AddFontResource(t) i ('MSYH.TTF') .s" 

It is a easy way and the value in registry is correct. But if I want to inst it to my directory, I must use:

SetOutPath $INSTDIRTrueType
File MSYH.TTF
WriteRegStr HKLM "Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts" "微软雅黑 (TrueType)" "$INSTDIR\TrueType\MSYH.TTF"
System::Call "GDI32::AddFontResource(t) i ('$INSTDIR\TrueType\MSYH.TTF') .s" 

When there are a large number of fonts to install to custom directory, I must write each font name to registry but not using the FontName plugin, as the reason above. After searching by google, I founder that a function GetTextFaceA. But I don't know how to use it to get the name of a font. Please help me.

Afrow UK
5th May 2010 15:03 UTC

The FontName plug-in does not use the uLanguageID parameter of the TT_NAME_RECORD structure when reading strings from the TT_NAME_TABLE_HEADER struct and is returning the first font name it finds (1033 I guess, but that may not always be the case?) You should contact the author and ask him to add a switch to specify the locale ID to search for (i.e. /locale=2052). Also that plug-in uses a lot of CRT calls which could be avoided but I won't be cleaning it up!

Stu