HI Mark and all,
On Mar 4, 2005, at 9:05 AM, Ken Ray wrote:
On 3/3/05 9:28 AM, "Kresten Bjerg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a font suite of 14 specially devellopped fonts, needed for a
standalone. Do users have to download them, and install them manually (a
mac version and a Windows version) or can they somehow be included in
the standalone, - and perhaps more or less automatically be installed
from there?
You can't "embed" fonts into your standalone (like Flash or Director), but
you can store them in your standalone as custom properties and write them
out to disk into the OS's Fonts folder. This would be the equivalent of
being installed.
We used to do that with our font package, but ran into problems with XP. It turns out that the fonts might work on some systems and not on others. Once the user restarted the system, usually the fonts would not show up in a user's app. We had to resort to spitting out a tradition installer from a custom property and install the fonts with that. I am sure it could be done if you knew the correct registry settings to make. I just ran out of time and never got around to figuring it out myself. If you do figure it out, please post.
maybe someone remebers the old Metacard externals form XWorld computing :-)
The win version was called "EXT.dll" (please take a look in your "Revolution/components/"
folder :-)
In this lovely external was a function which would install a font on windows on the fly...
And it was usable immediately!
Since it looks like RR already implemented some of the functionality into Revolution,
maybe the scotsmen and -women could give a litte hint if this handy thingie could
still be used??? :-)
I don't have the syntax/docs anymore (yes, i paid for them along time ago) but maybe this
still works and even with XP?
Any comments from edinborough?
I may be totally wrong, but don't think so ;-)
Mark Talluto -- CANELA Software http://www.canelasoftware.com
Regards
Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.major-k.de
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