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From: dick@venera.isi.edu (Richard Gillmann)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Vector fonts
Keywords: OEM_CHARSET, Vector Fonts, Text
Message-ID: <7941@venera.isi.edu>
Date: 5 Apr 89 19:21:43 GMT
References: <342@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: dick@venera.isi.edu.UUCP (Richard Gillmann)
Organization: Three D Graphics, Pacific Palisades, CA
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In article <342@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM> gmiller@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM writes:
>I am trying to use vector rather than raster fonts in a Windows application.
>The books I have (Petzold &c) say that when using CreateFont(), nCharSet must
>be set to OEM_CHARSET to get a vector font, since all the vector fonts are OEM
>charset fonts.  But when I use OEM_CHARSET, my text gets displayed as all
>underscores; e. g. "Node 1" comes out as "______."

Sounds like you are basically on the right track.  Be sure to specify a
vector font family when you create the font.  The vector fonts are Roma
n,
Modern and Script.  The other fonts are bit maps only.  Also, I think you
would find that using CreateFontIndirect is a little easier.

Richard Gillmann