i have no earthly idea why you're doing this, but i'm awfully curious.
but anyway, if the embedded fonts have an asterisk in their names, can't
you loop through that list looking for words that contain "*", and do
whatever you want with the word when you find it?
-bhakti
Slava Paperno wrote:
>
> I need to display to the user the complete list of fonts installed on the
> system (Win and Mac). I use the fontList() method of an embedded font to
> get the list, which works fine.
>
> The problem is that the embedded fonts and the indentically-named
> system-installed fonts show up with the same name. When Director lists
> fonts, it marks the embedded ones with an asterisk.
>
> I could assume that all embedded fonts in my movie are on that list and
> delete their names, and then add them again with asterisks (or just omit
> them), but that's an assumption I would rather verify first.
>
> Is there a way to get the font list where the Director-embedded fonts
> wouldn't show up, or would show up marked in some way?
>
> Thanks!
> Slava
>
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