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</head><body text="#194869">Alas.  Still working in (Py)Qt5.  I'm 
probably stuck with it then.<br>
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Thanks.<br>
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/John<br>
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Greetings again!<br>
  <br>
This is perhaps a bit of an esoteric question.<br>
  <br>
I am using <span style="font-family: monospace;">QFontDatabase</span> 
and <span style="font-family: monospace;">QFont</span> to query and 
manipulate some display fonts.  On my system, there are some font 
family/variant combinations that have pretty long names.  Several in the
 <span style="font-style: italic;">Bahnschrift</span> family, for 
instance -- <span style="font-style: italic;">Bahnschrift SemiBold 
SemiCondensed,
 Bahnschrift SemiLight SemiCondensed, </span>and so on.<span 
style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br>
  <br>
The Windows font settings app lists these with their full names.  Also, 
if I query the <span style="font-family: monospace;">.ttf</span> file 
directly:<br>
  <br>
  <span style="font-family: monospace;">    path = 
r'C:\Windows\fonts\bahnschrift.ttf'</span><span style="font-family: 
monospace;"><br>
  </span><span style="font-family: monospace;">    font = 
ttLib.TTFont(path)</span><span style="font-family: monospace;"><br>
  </span><span style="font-family: monospace;">    for instance in 
font["fvar"].instances:</span><span style="font-family: monospace;"><br>
  </span><span style="font-family: monospace;">        style = 
font["name"].getName(instance.subfamilyNameID, 3, 1, 0x409)</span><span 
style="font-family: monospace;"><br>
  </span><span style="font-family: monospace;">        print(style)</span><span
 style="font-family: monospace;"><br>
  </span><br>
I get the full names.<br>
  <br>
However, if I get a list of font families using <span 
style="font-family: monospace;">QFontDatabase().families()</span>, the 
names that are returned are truncated to (oddly) 31 characters.  So, for
 example, <span style="font-style: italic;">Bahnschrift SemiBold 
SemiConden, Bahnschrift SemiLight SemiConde, </span>and the like.<br>
  <br>
And indeed, if I want to create a <span style="font-family: monospace;">QFont</span>
 object for these, I seem to need to use the truncated names:<br>
  <br>
  <span style="font-family: monospace;">QFont('Bahnschrift SemiBold 
SemiConden')</span><span style="font-family: monospace;">        # These
 work<br>
  </span><span style="font-family: monospace;">QFont('Bahnschrift 
SemiLight Semi</span><span style="font-family: monospace;">Conde')</span><span
 style="font-family: monospace;"><br>
  </span><br>
  <span style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-family: 
monospace;">QFont('Bahnschrift SemiBold SemiCondensed')     # These do 
not</span><span style="font-family: monospace;"><br>
    </span><span style="font-family: monospace;">QFont('Bahnschrift 
SemiLight Semi</span><span style="font-family: monospace;">Condensed')</span><span
 style="font-family: monospace;"><br>
    </span></span><br>
Not a <span style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-style: 
italic;">huge</span></span> deal, but it's a little difficult, because 
the names PyQt seems to recognize aren't the ones I'd want to present to
 the user (nor ones I would have thought to use, but for the fact that <span
 style="font-family: monospace;">QFontDatabase(</span><span 
style="font-family: monospace;">).families()</span> gave them to me that
 way).  Any thoughts as to why?<br>
  <br>
Thanks again, as always!<br>
  <br>
/John<br>
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