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From: keith@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Keith Packard)
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Subject: Re: Server Guru Question -- FontPtr to font name
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Date: 12 Feb 90 20:04:47 GMT
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> Give a FontPtr, is there a call somewhere in the server to get the 
> font name (as supplied by the client)?

There is no direct call to retrieve the font name.  Most fonts will have
a font-property "FONT" which containts a name which can be used to lookup the
font.  Run through the list of font properties, looking for the one
with name == MakeAtom ("FONT", 4, 1).

Note that this name is the "canonical" name of the font; it is unlikely to
match the string used to open the font, which typically contains wild-card
characters or is an alias name.

Keith Packard
MIT X Consortium