Re: [GD-Windows] Windows true type fonts

[Mike W. <mi...@ge...>]

sounds like a rather over-zealous legal department ;}

gawd help you if you run an apache webserver for your website, or...a=20
DNS server maybe ;P

lol anyways, it's there if it's useful, sounds like you have something=20
that does the same thing anyways.

on a semi-related there is a program called X-Fonter that lets you=20
browse fonts without installing them, not sure how they do that...might=20
be something useful anyways, it's the only program that i've found that=20
lets you do that.

cheers
mike w
www.gekidodesigns.com

Jacob Turner (Core Design Ltd) wrote:

> Hi
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> Thanks for the suggestions.  AddFontResource(), RemoveFontResource()
> is working fine for us.
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> We do already have a tool to preprocess TTF fonts into a TGA for use
> in game rendering of fonts on all platforms.  We just wanted to make
> it work by being given the TTF as an input file rather than having to
> install the font on every machine that needs to the preprocess step.
> The preprocess step is part of our automated tool chain so in theory
> can be run on any machine in the building.
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> Thanks Mike I will check out the open source engine stuff.  But
> recentally our legal people came and talked to us and after that
> discussion it seems it is easier for us to write it all ourselves.
> If we use any external code/tools then we have to ask the legal
> people about before hand, which means it usually quicker to write the
> code/tools ourselves, arrggghghghgh.
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> Jake
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>> -----Original Message----- From:
>> gam...@li...=20
>> [mailto:gam...@li...]On Behalf
>> Of Mike Wuetherick Sent: 24 March 2004 23:16 To:
>> gam...@li... Subject: Re:
>> [GD-Windows] Windows true type fonts
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>> i think i misunderstood - you are looking to do the conversion on
>> the fly?  this tool is for just converting them to images, but you
>>  should/might be able to use some of the ideas to do the same on
>> the fly?
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>> mike w www.gekidodesigns.com
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>> Mike Wuetherick wrote:
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>>> we already have a tool that will convert a truetype image
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>> into a bitmap
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>>> with coordinate data image that can be read by the game to
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>> break the
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>>> single image into individual letters.
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>>> the game engine is open-source, so you can grab what you
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>> need/want from
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>>> it ;}
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>>> www.realityfactory.ca
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>>> cheers mike w www.gekidodesigns.com
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>>> Jacob Turner (Core Design Ltd) wrote:
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>>>> Writing a tool to output true type fonts as images for use
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>> in game.
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>>>> All is fine the last thing I would like to do is give the
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>> true type
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>>>> font file as an input to the tool rather than having to
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>> install the
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>>>> true type font into the system "fonts" directory.  So is there
>>>> a windows way of opening a true type font and then using it
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>> via GDI or
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>>>> GDIplus drawing commands ?
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>>>> Thanks
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>>>> Jake
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