Fontnames in Tagged Text

[Andreas_Eigendorf@adobeforums.com]

Hello,

I work with InDesign CS (3.01) on a Win 2000 (SP 4) System.
I use tagged text to create documents to show and test the fonts of our library (a few 1000 in various formats). The tagged text files are created by a database driven (python) script.

In general this all works fine, but in some cases i have problems to to calculate the 'cFont' and 'cTypeface' tag to address a specific font e.g. have a font (Type1 pfb) with the FontFullName 'MetaBoldLf-Caps' in this case i have to set the cFont-tag to 'Meta Bold Lf' and the cTypeface-tag to 'Capitals' (same as in the ID font-menu). This means that i have to use strings for the tags which can not be found in the font (and in my database also).

My question is: is there any documentation available on how the 'cFont' and 'cTypeface' tag must be calculated from the strings i find in a font (fontname, fullname, familyname, stylename etc.)?

Thanx
Eigi

[Olav_Kvern@adobeforums.com]

Hi Eigi--

The best way to find out what InDesign expects for a particular font family/font style name is to:

1. Create a text frame containing some example text.

2. Format the text with the font or fonts you're curious about.

3. Select the text and export as tagged text.

4. Open the tagged text file with a text editor (Notepad will do nicely) and look at the font name tags.

It can be very difficult to figure out what the font name/font style name are from looking at the user interface in InDesign.

Thanks,

Ole

[Andreas_Eigendorf@adobeforums.com]

Hi Olav,

Thanks for your quick reply.

The way you describe works fine. My problem is the amount of fonts. I have to do it for more than 12000.

Therefore i try to rebuild the algorithm which translates the name-strings in a font to the fontnames used by InDesign.

My script works fine for a lot of fonts, but there are a lot of exceptions i don't understand.

So i hope Adobe will disclose the algorithm used by InDesign.

Regards

Eigi