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From: bturner@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Bill Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: using your own fonts
Message-ID: <106580042@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Jun 89 16:19:00 GMT
References: <29447@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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>	I created my own font using MS-WINDOWS' FONTEDIT, and I could not 
>figure out how to load this font 'into windows' for a file.  

The MS Windows Programmer's Learning Guide (for 2.0) has appendix A that
describes fonts, and how to create a .FON file.  It is basically a DLL
that has no code/data segments, but only font resources.

You can also add the font into your own program as a resource (the .FNT
file can be used in the .RC file, such as

    FontName FONT xyzzy.FNT

) and then it is available by using AddFontResource.  You might be able to
get the font via FindResource/LoadResource, but I'm not certain that this
would add the font so that you can create it with CreateFont.

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