Thank you Pierre, that worked. I am still going to try and get the TTFQuery+Fonttools to work just out of curiosity. Thanks again to everyone!!! S
"Pierre Quentel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Samantha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... >> I am attempting to extract the Font Names from the installed windows >> fonts. >> I am having a heck of a time getting these rather than the file names. >> Examples can be seen by going to Control Panel > Fonts >> >> Any help or direction is appreciated. >> S > > Try this : > > Python 2.3.2 (#49, Oct 2 2003, 20:02:00) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on > win32 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> from Tkinter import Tk >>>> import tkFont >>>> root=Tk() >>>> print tkFont.families(root) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list