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1081 <p><a href="https://www.freetype.org">FreeType</a> » <a href="../">Docs</a> » <a href="index.html#format-specific-api">Format-Specific API</a> » Font Formats</p>
1083 <h1 id="font-formats">Font Formats<a class="headerlink" href="#font-formats" title="Permanent link">¶</a></h1>
1084 <h2 id="synopsis">Synopsis<a class="headerlink" href="#synopsis" title="Permanent link">¶</a></h2>
1085 <p>The single function in this section can be used to get the font format. Note that this information is not needed normally; however, there are special cases (like in PDF devices) where it is important to differentiate, in spite of FreeType's uniform API.</p>
1086 <h2 id="ft_get_font_format">FT_Get_Font_Format<a class="headerlink" href="#ft_get_font_format" title="Permanent link">¶</a></h2>
1087 <p>Defined in FT_FONT_FORMATS_H (freetype/ftfntfmt.h).</p>
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1090 FT_EXPORT( <span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="keyword">char</span>* )
1091 <b>FT_Get_Font_Format</b>( <a href="ft2-base_interface.html#ft_face">FT_Face</a> face );
1094 FT_EXPORT( <span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="keyword">char</span>* )
1095 FT_Get_X11_Font_Format( <a href="ft2-base_interface.html#ft_face">FT_Face</a> face );
1099 <p>Return a string describing the format of a given face. Possible values are ‘TrueType’, ‘Type 1’, ‘BDF’, ‘PCF’, ‘Type 42’, ‘CID Type 1’, ‘CFF’, ‘PFR’, and ‘Windows FNT’.</p>
1100 <p>The return value is suitable to be used as an X11 FONT_PROPERTY.</p>
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1104 <tr><td class="val" id="face">face</td><td class="desc">
1105 <p>Input face handle.</p>
1111 <p>Font format string. <code>NULL</code> in case of error.</p>
1114 <p>A deprecated name for the same function is <code>FT_Get_X11_Font_Format</code>.</p>
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