Own fontsuite with standalone ?

[Klaus Major]

HI Mark and all,

>
> On Mar 4, 2005, at 9:05 AM, Ken Ray wrote:
>
>> On 3/3/05 9:28 AM, "Kresten Bjerg" <kresten.bjerg at psy.ku.dk> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a font suite of 14 specially devellopped fonts, needed for a
>>> standalone. Do users have to download them, and install them 
>>> manually (a
>>> mac version and a Windows version) or can they somehow be included in
>>> the standalone, - and perhaps more or less automatically be installed
>>> from there?
>>
>> You can't "embed" fonts into your standalone (like Flash or 
>> Director), but
>> you can store them in your standalone as custom properties and write 
>> them
>> out to disk into the OS's Fonts folder. This would be the equivalent 
>> of
>> being installed.
>
> We used to do that with our font package, but ran into problems with 
> XP.  It turns out that the fonts might work on some systems and not on 
> others.  Once the user restarted the system, usually the fonts would 
> not show up in a user's app.  We had to resort to spitting out a 
> tradition installer from a custom property and install the fonts with 
> that.  I am sure it could be done if you knew the correct registry 
> settings to make.  I just ran out of time and never got around to 
> figuring it out myself.  If you do figure it out, please post.

maybe someone remebers the old Metacard externals form XWorld computing 
:-)

The win version was called "EXT.dll" (please take a look in your 
"Revolution/components/"
folder :-)

In this lovely external was a function which would install a font on 
windows on the fly...
And it was usable immediately!

Since it looks like RR already implemented some of the functionality 
into Revolution,
maybe the scotsmen and -women could give a litte hint if this handy 
thingie could
still be used??? :-)

I don't have the syntax/docs anymore (yes, i paid for them  along time 
ago) but maybe this
still works and even with XP?

Any comments from edinborough?


I may be totally wrong, but don't think so ;-)

> Mark Talluto
> -- 
> CANELA Software
> http://www.canelasoftware.com

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de