10.6 Portable font descriptions

Portable font descriptions are designed to solve the following problems:

• Specify enough information to uniquely determine a real font.
• Query which real fonts match a partial specification.
• Allow font specification to be recorded and reused in a later run.

All the symbols described below are exported from the gp package. Font objects returned by find-matching-fonts and find-best-font can be used in calls to the Graphics Ports drawing functions and as the :font argument for CAPI panes.

10.6.1 Font attributes and font descriptions