[ANN] New External Released from Altuit

[Chipp Walters]

Terry Judd wrote:

> Chipp, does altFont work even if the end user doesn't have administrator 
> rights?
> 
> TIA Terry...

Well, Terry that's a loaded question with a lot of variables. The Demo 
stack downloads and installs the altFont.dll (Windows) or altFont.bundle 
(Mac) in the same folder as Revolution. If you don't have administrator 
rights, then I suppose that might fail on the PC as typcially the Rev 
folder is in the Program Files area. Of course, someone would have had 
to already had administrator rights to install Rev in the first place, 
so I doubt that's much of a problem.

If you build a standalone application, you'll need to ship the altFont 
external with it. Where it is stored is up to the user, but once saved 
to a folder, there should be no other admin issues.

Regarding the actual loading of fonts, I don't think there are any 
problems at all on either platform. The fonts are not copied to any 
folder like the Windows/Font folder or the font folder on the Mac, they 
are just instantiated via an API call on the computer. I would be very 
surprised if there are any admin conflicts for this API call. I couldn't 
find any documentation about them.

HTH,

Chipp