I use a couple of "fancy" fonts in my app and simply distribute the .TTF with my app.
I just copy it into the fonts directory BUT I notice on 20% of the installs I have
done this still doesn't work. I have to install fonts from the control panel even
though they are already there and it's fine after that. Is there an Win API call to do
this ? Still, all installs are done on site so this isn't really a problem for me. In
essence, distributing the fonts your app requires shouldn't be a problem, should it ?
Regards
Andrew
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Chuah [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 9:01 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: RE: [DUG]: Fonts
I'm afraid GDI will pick the "nearest" font and use that. You stand a
better chance at picking the 6 lotto balls than figuring out which font GDI
will substitute it for. If you must use a fancy font, you will probably
have to get a redistributable font and embed that into your application (as
a resource perhaps), and install that font during setup. Having said that,
I normally go around deleting fonts that setup program installs into my
machine.
Regards,
Dennis.
> Just a Newbie question:
>
> If you use a unusual font with a TLabel, will another
> computer without the
> font be able to view it, or will it appear as the default?
> i.e. System etc.
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