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

[Joshua Watt]

On Fri, 2017-08-04 at 13:15 +0200, Myles C. Maxfield wrote:
> You can
> use CTFontDescriptorCopyAttributes() and CTFontDescriptorCreateWithAt
> tributes() and serialize the intermediate dictionary.

Ah, I should have clarified: This is on a Linux port :). I was hoping
for some platform independent method, but perhaps that isn't possible.

> 
> —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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