Saving a font as a custom property

[François Chaplais]

does it work if you save the font as a file first (using the URL scheme, for instance?)
François
Le 17 févr. 2012 à 18:33, Lars Brehmer a écrit :

> I have been fooling around with revFontLoad in Windows for quite a while now with varying degrees of succes, nostly very little. I found an old post that suggested saving the font as a custom property, and then when the application loads, saves that custom property as its original font. So far so good.
> 
> revFontload works when this font is already in its place (in aplication data) and so does revFontUnLoad. However I can't get the script that right that gets the custom property and saves it as a font again.
> 
> To set the custom property, I used:
> 
>    set the myFont1 of stack "fireUp" to (url("binfile:" & (specialFolderPath(26) & "/vTrainerFiles/vDeuEng/Ipa93sr.ttf")))
>    set the myFont2 of stack "fireUp" to (url("binfile:" & (specialFolderPath(26) & "/vTrainerFiles/vDeuEng/Ipa93sb.ttf")))
> 
> I think this worked because those two custom properties now contain a whole lot of gibberish characters, just like when I save a stack as a custom property. I am of course not sure if it really worked.
> 
> for then getting the custom property and saving it as its original font, I have tried both
> 
>    get the myFont1 of stack "fireUp"
>    save it as URL(binfile: & specialFolderPath(26) & "\TrainerFiles\vDeuEng\Ipa93sr.ttf")
> 
> and 
> 
>    get the myFont1 of stack "fireUp"
>    save it as (specialFolderPath(26) & "\TrainerFiles\vDeuEng\Ipa93sr.ttf")
> 
> Both of these reult in errors and and the fonts are not saved.
> 
> What am I doing wrong? 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Lars
> 
> 
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