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:mod:`fm` --- *Font Manager* interface
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:synopsis: Font Manager interface for SGI workstations.
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The :mod:`fm` module has been removed in Python 3.
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single: Font Manager, IRIS
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single: IRIS Font Manager
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This module provides access to the IRIS *Font Manager* library. It is
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available only on Silicon Graphics machines. See also: *4Sight User's Guide*,
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section 1, chapter 5: "Using the IRIS Font Manager."
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This is not yet a full interface to the IRIS Font Manager. Among the unsupported
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features are: matrix operations; cache operations; character operations (use
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string operations instead); some details of font info; individual glyph metrics;
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It supports the following operations:
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Initialization function. Calls :c:func:`fminit`. It is normally not necessary to
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call this function, since it is called automatically the first time the
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:mod:`fm` module is imported.
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.. function:: findfont(fontname)
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Return a font handle object. Calls ``fmfindfont(fontname)``.
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.. function:: enumerate()
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Returns a list of available font names. This is an interface to
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:c:func:`fmenumerate`.
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.. function:: prstr(string)
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Render a string using the current font (see the :func:`setfont` font handle
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method below). Calls ``fmprstr(string)``.
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.. function:: setpath(string)
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Sets the font search path. Calls ``fmsetpath(string)``. (XXX Does not work!?!)
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.. function:: fontpath()
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Returns the current font search path.
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Font handle objects support the following operations:
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.. method:: font handle.scalefont(factor)
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Returns a handle for a scaled version of this font. Calls ``fmscalefont(fh,
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.. method:: font handle.setfont()
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Makes this font the current font. Note: the effect is undone silently when the
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font handle object is deleted. Calls ``fmsetfont(fh)``.
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.. method:: font handle.getfontname()
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Returns this font's name. Calls ``fmgetfontname(fh)``.
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.. method:: font handle.getcomment()
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Returns the comment string associated with this font. Raises an exception if
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there is none. Calls ``fmgetcomment(fh)``.
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.. method:: font handle.getfontinfo()
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Returns a tuple giving some pertinent data about this font. This is an interface
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to ``fmgetfontinfo()``. The returned tuple contains the following numbers:
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``(printermatched, fixed_width, xorig, yorig, xsize, ysize, height, nglyphs)``.
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.. method:: font handle.getstrwidth(string)
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Returns the width, in pixels, of *string* when drawn in this font. Calls
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``fmgetstrwidth(fh, string)``.