[ANN] New External Released from Altuit

[Terry Judd]

> From: Chipp Walters <chipp at chipp.com>
> Date: 27 January 2006 3:16:55 PM GMT+11:00
> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Re: [ANN] New External Released from Altuit
> Reply-To: chipp at chipp.com, How to use Revolution 
> <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>
>
> 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

Thanks Chipp, that all sounds just fine to me. I'm looking forward to 
trying it out.

Terry...