[webkit-dev] Passing a font from WebProcess to UIProcess

[Myles C. Maxfield]

You can use CTFontDescriptorCopyAttributes() <https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coretext/1509327-ctfontdescriptorcopyattributes> and CTFontDescriptorCreateWithAttributes() <https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coretext/1510642-ctfontdescriptorcreatewithattrib> and serialize the intermediate dictionary.

—Myles

> On Jul 19, 2017, at 7:48 PM, Joshua Watt <jpewhacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> I have a need to "pass" a font from the WebProcess to the UIProcess
> (really, I just need to be able to recreate the same font in the
> UIProcess that was used in the WebProcess). Does anyone know of a
> mechanism to do this (preferably in a platform independent manner)?
> Ideally, there would be some structure or string that "describes" a
> font that could then pass through and use it to (re)construct the Font
> in the UIProcess.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joshua Watt
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