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From: bturner@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Bill Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: fonts under mswindows
Message-ID: <106580068@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 13 Oct 89 16:37:38 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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I haven't tried to create my own fonts, but FontEdit looks painful...

The .FNT files contain the font information.  If you add this as a resource
to your program (in the .RC file include a line like "myfont FONT myfont.fnt")
you should be able to use the font (AddFontResource).

The .FON file is a resource-only program file.  It has no code, and the .RC
file specifies the resources that it contains.  It is built the same way you'd
build a program (with link4 and rc), but then it is renamed to .FON so noone
will try to execute it.  The Programmer's Guide (I believe) describes how
these are created.  Once created, they can be added to the system via Control
Panel.

--Bill Turner (bturner@hp-pcd.hp.com)
HP Corvallis Information Systems