Re: MS LineDraw printing on WIn3.X GDI?

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From: Marius Groenendijk
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 00:00

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Jerry Coffin wrote in message ...
>In article <6kerhu$mue$1@xenon.inbe.net>, Marius@Revolux.luxembourg
>says...
>> Hi,
>>
>> How can I print MS LineDraw chars? I'm using the GDI for Windows 3.X.
>> I create a logical font (LOGFONT) with CreateFont (and
CreateFontIndirect)
>> and then set the resulting font with SelectObject on the device context.
>
>What character set are you specifying when you call CreateFont?  For
>line-drawing characters, you need to ask for a fixed-width, OEM
>character set.


lfFaceName = "MS LineDraw"
lfCharSet = OEM_CHARSET
lfPitchAndFamily = FIXED_PITCH | MM_DONTCARE

And many more combinations thereof (DEFAULT_CHARSET, ANSI..., SYMBOL...)

I suppose CreateFont or CreateFontIndirect are really the same thing (did
some
tests and got always same behaviour).

Thanks,
  Marius.

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From: "Marius Groenendijk" <Marius@Revolux.luxembourg>
Subject: Re: MS LineDraw printing on WIn3.X GDI?
Date: 1998/05/27
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