[futurebasic] Font Hell

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From: Craig Hoyt <aztech4mac@...>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 21:54:13 -0800
Hi all...

In my latest project I trying to deal with Apples moronic font management
system. I need to access a non-active font for printing. I've been able to
do this by accessing the 'FOND' resource and then getting the font
resource. When both are resident in memory the font can be used. My problem
is that there are several different font resource types. FONT, NFNT, sfnt,
and maybe more. The FOND resource is a record for an entire font family and
gives an ID for the font resource but as far as I can see gives no
reference to the actual font resource type.

Does anybody know how to figure out from the FOND resource or other means
which of the three (or more) resource types I need to access to activate
the font?

Thanks for any help you can pass my way.

Craig
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