NAME

pixfont - Create and manipulate fonts from Tcl

SYNOPSIS

pixfont option ?arg arg...?

DESCRIPTION

The pixfont command is used to create, delete, and query fonts from Tcl (Tk not required). Those font handles can be used to draw text inside images using the pixane command. It is a Tcl wrapper around the Pixane C library. It can take several different forms, depending on the option argument. The legal forms are:

pixfont create ?name? ?option value ...?
Creates a new font handle and returns its name. name specifies the name for the font; if it is omitted then Pixane picks a name of the form pixfontx, where x is an integer. There may be any number of option-value pairs, which provide configuration options for the new font. If a font already exists by the given name then an error is returned. Supported options are :

-builtin ?fontlabel?
Create a font handle for one of the builtin fonts. fontlabel must of of the form family ?bold? ?italic?, where family is one of serif, sansserif, or monotype. Some families are accepted for compatibilities, and are considered as aliases:
  • "times" and "times new roman" are equivalent to serif
  • "sans-serif", "arial", "helvetica" and "verdana" are equivalent to sansserif
  • "mono", "courier new" and "courier" are aliases for monotype
If no fontlabel is specified, it defaults to serif. According to build options, support for some or all builtin fonts may be removed.
-file ?filename?
filename gives the name of a file that is to be read to supply data for the font.
-data ?data?
Specified the contents of the font as a binary string.

pixfont delete ?fontHandle fontHandle ...?
Deletes each of the named fonts and returns an empty string.
pixfont measure fontHandle fontsize text
Measure box required to render text using font mapped to fontHandle, using font size fontsize. Returns width, ascending and descending properties, as a list of 3 integers.
pixfont metrics font fontsize
Get metrics for font fontHandle. Returns ascending and descending properties, as a list of 2 integers. Metrics is a property intrinsic to a a font, and doesn't relies on any rendered text.

SUPPORTED FORMATS

Pixfont uses the FreeType to handle fonts, so it can handle fonts in any format supported by a freetype module. By default, FreeType 2 supports the following font formats:

CREDITS