wdx_fontinfo

Font info WDX plugin for Total Commander and Double Commander.

Downloads are available on the Releases page.

Supported formats

• TrueType, OpenType, and their collections
• Web Open Font Format 1 & 2 (WOFF, WOFF2)
• Embedded OpenType (EOT)
• PostScript Type 0, 1, 3, 11, etc., with AFM, PFM, and INF
• Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF)
• Portable Compiled Format (PCF)
• Windows’ FNT/FON
• FontForge’s Spline Font Database (SFD)

The plugin can read gzip-compressed BDF and PCF if the file extensions are ".bdf.gz" and ".pcf.gz", respectively.

Available fields

• Family
• Style
• Full Name
• PostScript Name
• Version
• Copyright
• Unique ID
• Trademark
• Manufacturer
• Designer
• Description
• Vendor URL
• Designer URL
• License
• License URL
• Format
  • "TT" - "plain" TrueType
  • "OT PS" - PostSript flavored OpenType
  • "OT TT" - TrueType flavored OpenType
  • "EOT" - compressed Embedded OpenType (the plugin can't decompress EOT to detect its TrueType/OpenType format)
  • "PS {type}" - PostScript Type {type}
  • "AFM {version}"
  • "PFM"
  • "INF"
  • "BDF {version}"
  • "PCF"
  • "FNT {version}" (both for FNT and FON)
  • "SFD {version}"
• Variation Axis Tags - a comma-separated list of 4-character tags identifying variation exes in a variable font. Common tags include:
  • ital - italic
  • opsz - optical size
  • slnt - slant
  • wdht - width
  • wght - weight
• Number of Fonts - number of fonts in TTC, OTC, or WOFF2. Always 1 for other formats.

Building

Get FPC version 3.1.1 or newer and run fpc src/fi_wdx.pas @compile.cfg.

To build a 64-bit version of the plugin on Windows, add -Px86_64.

Building with WOFF2 support

• Download the latest stable source of the brotli library and follow its building instructions.

• Put libbrotlicommon-static and libbrotlidec-static libraries in a separate directory, for example libs32 or libs64, depending on the target.

• Add -dENABLE_WOFF2 and -Fl followed by the directory with the libraries (-Fllibs32 or -Fllibs64) to the build command. For example:

  fpc src/fi_wdx.pas @compile.cfg -dENABLE_WOFF2 -Fllibs64