embed/install font
Chipp Walters
chipp at chipp.com
Mon Jul 18 15:19:16 EDT 2005
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
Bob Earp wrote:
> I need this BIG time, and it mnay be a show stopper form me moving a
> whole mess of customers form ToolBook (where this isa breeze to do) to
> Rev. At RevConWest Andre Garcia said that he thought he had a way of
> doing this by using a custom property to store the font, but I haven't
> heard from him since then.
>
> Bob Earp - White Rock, BC.
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