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Re: Windows Fonts Again

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From: Peter Below (TeamB)
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 10:18
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In article <3dde62a8@newsgroups.borland.com>, Camiel Wijffels wrote:
> When I use the Windows API call EnumFontFamilies with for example "Arial", I
> get as response four fonts: "Arial", "Arial Italic", "Arial Bold" and "Arial
> Bold Italic". However I have more "Arial" fonts installed in my Fonts
> directory, for example "Arial Cursief", "Arial Vet" and "Arial Vet Cursief"
> (the dutch version). However the EnumFontFamilies function does NOT find
> them. And I NEED to find them as well. How to?

Perhaps these fonts do not belong to the Arial family, despite their display 
names. Try to call EnumFontFamiliesEx with a Tlogfont that has its lfFaceName 
set to empty (#0). If you now get one of the missing fonts in addition to 
Arial you know that it belongs to a different typeface.

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