Re: [TCLCORE] private font-files in tcltk

[Pat T. <pat...@us...>]

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Brian Griffin wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:28 PM, T. Horsnell <ts...@mr...
> <mailto:ts...@mr...>> wrote:
> 
>     Jeff Hobbs wrote:
>     > On 24/03/2009 9:46 AM, T. Horsnell wrote:
>     >> Is there a way in TCLTK to use fontfiles from a private directory?
>     >> Preferably a way in which one can refer to such files by an explicit
>     >> file-path.
>     >
>     > Tk is directed by the fonts the X server (or OS system) says are
>     > available.  Just make that font available through the X server and Tk
>     > will see it.
>     >
>     > Jeff
> 
>     Yes, but I want to do this under Windows as well as Linux and I dont
>     want the user to have to install this private fontset in either case.
>     I want to be able to distribute them along with the application.
> 
> Sounds like a good GSoC project :-)
>

This can probably be achieved using AddFontResourceEx or
AddFontMemResourceEx which is what is used to load fonts embedded in PDF
documents and other such things. I should think it will be fairly simple
to do.

Pat Thoyts
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