
``fm`` --- *Font Manager* interface
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Platform: IRIX

*Platforms: *IRIX

Deprecated since version 2.6: The ``fm`` module has been deprecated
for removal in Python 3.0.

This module provides access to the IRIS *Font Manager* library.   It
is available only on Silicon Graphics machines. See also: *4Sight
User's Guide*, section 1, chapter 5: "Using the IRIS Font Manager."

This is not yet a full interface to the IRIS Font Manager. Among the
unsupported features are: matrix operations; cache operations;
character operations (use string operations instead); some details of
font info; individual glyph metrics; and printer matching.

It supports the following operations:

fm.init()

   Initialization function. Calls ``fminit()``. It is normally not
   necessary to call this function, since it is called automatically
   the first time the ``fm`` module is imported.

fm.findfont(fontname)

   Return a font handle object. Calls ``fmfindfont(fontname)``.

fm.enumerate()

   Returns a list of available font names. This is an interface to
   ``fmenumerate()``.

fm.prstr(string)

   Render a string using the current font (see the ``setfont()`` font
   handle method below). Calls ``fmprstr(string)``.

fm.setpath(string)

   Sets the font search path. Calls ``fmsetpath(string)``. (XXX Does
   not work!?!)

fm.fontpath()

   Returns the current font search path.

Font handle objects support the following operations:

font handle.scalefont(factor)

   Returns a handle for a scaled version of this font. Calls
   ``fmscalefont(fh, factor)``.

font handle.setfont()

   Makes this font the current font. Note: the effect is undone
   silently when the font handle object is deleted. Calls
   ``fmsetfont(fh)``.

font handle.getfontname()

   Returns this font's name. Calls ``fmgetfontname(fh)``.

font handle.getcomment()

   Returns the comment string associated with this font. Raises an
   exception if there is none. Calls ``fmgetcomment(fh)``.

font handle.getfontinfo()

   Returns a tuple giving some pertinent data about this font. This is
   an interface to ``fmgetfontinfo()``. The returned tuple contains
   the following numbers: ``(printermatched, fixed_width, xorig,
   yorig, xsize, ysize, height, nglyphs)``.

font handle.getstrwidth(string)

   Returns the width, in pixels, of *string* when drawn in this font.
   Calls ``fmgetstrwidth(fh, string)``.
