draw character from glyph name

[Artur]

Hello,

I'm trying to draw a character on the canvas by calling an index from a list of glyph names.

newPage('A4Landscape')
font('SFMono-Regular')
fontSize(60)
txt = listFontGlyphNames()
text(txt[60], (30, 30))

What is the way to convert a glyph name to the character that represents it?

Cheers,
Artur

[benkiel]

FormattedString is your best friend here, as you can add a glyph name to the string and get the glyph with the appendGlyph method.

so for your code:

newPage('A4Landscape')
font('SFMono-Regular')
fontSize(60)
txt = listFontGlyphNames()
t = FormattedString()
t.appendGlyph(txt[60])
text(t, (30, 30))

[Artur]

Thanks Ben!