embed/install font

[Bob Earp]

Thanks Chip, I'll see if I can get this going however, I can't get some of 
the customers to agree to loading anything at all on their machines, yeah, 
go figure !!

I know I sound like a worn out record, but I really don't have a good answer 
when they say to me "but we didn't have to do this with your ToolBook 
projects"....

Thanks again, Bob...
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Bob,

Here's how I would probably go about this on XP..

1) Research what registry entries are changed in Windows when installing
a TrueType font

2) Suck up the font into your app:
set the uMyCustomFont of this stack to URL ("binfile:C:/myfont.ttf")

3) On startup spit it back out:
   a) find the specialFolder(36) which gives you the current Windows
directory and append it with /Fonts:

put specialFolder(36) & "/Fonts/" into tFontPath

check to see if your font exists

put "myfont.ttf" after tFontPath
if there is not a file tFontPath then
   put the uMyCustomFont of this stack into URL ("binfile:" & tFontPath)
   --> SET REGISTRY STUFF IF NECESSARY
end if

then check to see if you need a restart, or you can just start using the
font.

As mentioned, I believe there's a DLL somewhere which may make this
easier, but I don't know where.

-Chipp

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