Reading a font file

diddi

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  1. 2010
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  1. Windows
greets all.
I am looking at retrieving some of the specs about a font which are stored within the file such as the font family name, copyright owner etc. My problem is that I cannot find a way of opening the file. When I attempt a Binary Read, or any other file handling method, I am unable to obtain any suitable strings.

The context is that I have written a program which organises all my fonts into folders according to the type foundry/font family which works well, but I rely on a third party program to generate a text file with all of the font spec information already extracted.

I would really like to make a 1-click version. TIA
 

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