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From: cig@genrad.com (Charles I. Ganimian Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Fonts and screen resolution
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Date: 16 May 89 20:34:05 GMT
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In article <499@cfisun.UUCP> adam@cfi.COM (Adam Marx -CFI-) writes:
>We have written a Windows application that draws a fair amount of text, 
>and does it in several different sizes, styles, and faces.  It looks great 
>on our AT with an EGA display.  However, when we run it on other machines
>(i.e. a '386 running Windows/386 and a VGA, and a zenith laptop with a 
>mono CGA) the fonts come out in unexpected sizes and styles.  This is 
>especially distressing when it happpens to items like the values on our 
>graph axes.
>
>Question: Is there a way to select and use fonts which will preserve port-
>ability between displays?
>

	I would also like to know how to do this.


>Currently, I'm using the MM_TEXT map mode, and getting the fonts I want by
>partially populating a LOGFONT struct and using CreateFontIndirect().
>
>
>Also, in what is probably a related problem, I have found that if I start
>my application, then bring up Excel, and then put Excel away, when my 
>application redisplays it shows only garbage (black splotches where the 
>text should be) for certain of my fonts.  This does not go away when I 
>cause a repaint of the screen; only re-running my app will fix this.
>Any suggestions?
>
>"Yes ma'am, I do Windows."

The problem is that for some reason excel (and some other appps) will
leave you in a state where you end up with the "PREVIEW" font, instead
of the font you had.  I had the same problem using the system font in
my app, what I had to do was to make sure I selected the system font
every time I got a font and not ASSumed that I would get it.

Oh well just another week burned away...


					good luck

					charlie g.

p.s. to check if I was right check to see what font you have, I forget
     the function but I think it is GetTextFace