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

[Myles C. Maxfield]

I don’t think there is a platform independent method.

—Myles

> On Aug 4, 2017, at 3:48 PM, Joshua Watt <jpewhacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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>> 
>> 
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