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From: gregh@microsoft.UUCP (Greg HITCHCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How compatible are Win3.0 and OS2 PM's BMPs and Fonts?
Keywords: 3 BMP FONT OS2 PM
Message-ID: <57046@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 90 00:53:01 GMT
References: <368@casemo.UUCP>
Reply-To: gregh@microsoft.UUCP (Greg HITCHCOCK)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <368@casemo.UUCP> keating@casemo.UUCP (John Keating ) writes:
>Greetings unto the net!
>	
>    Well, the subject line about says it all...  Just how easy would it be to
>port fonts and BMPs from OS2 1.2 to Windows 3.0?
>

Since no one else has addressed the fonts question, here is a quick answer. 

There are two types of fonts supported by OS/2 1.2; bitmap fonts and outline
fonts.  The outline fonts supported by OS/2 are very different than the stroke
fonts supported by Windows.  OS/2 outlines contain a set of graphics
primitives which define a closed path.  This path is then filled to display
the current character.  Windows stroke fonts contain stick figure lines which
are not filled.

Bitmap fonts are very similar between OS/2 1.2 and Windows, but not exactly
the same.  The Font Editor which is provided with the OS/2 SDK will convert
Windows version 1 fonts to OS/2 fonts.  This is an unfortunate way of 
converting fonts, as there are few Windows version 1 fonts floating around,
but there are versions of the Windows font editor which can convert version 2
to version 1 fonts.

Overall, the "raw" fonts that are supplied with Windows and OS/2 1.2 are not
interchangable.

Greg Hitchcock