os/2 font programming

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2 total messages Started by "Pat Mueller" Tue, 07 Apr 1992 18:05

#629

Author: "Pat Mueller"
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 18:05

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You can get by with the OS/2 1.3 Programming Guide and the OS/2 1.3
Programming Reference Vol 1.  I'm playing with a program now that
generates metafiles with ATM font-ed text is them.  You need to do a
WinInitialize() to create the hab, but after that you can get by with
just Dev...() and Gpi...() calls, which means you don't need a window
message queue, which means the program will run in text mode.  One
gotcha is that to query the printer capabilities (clip regions for
particular forms your printer supports), you need to figure out what
printers and queues you have on your system.  You need to use Prf...()
calls to determine this, and these require a message queue, so the
program no longer runs in text mode.  I don't know anywhere else this
stuff might be documented besides these two manuals (but there might be
something somewhere).

Patrick Mueller
pmuellr@vnet.ibm.com
Programming Systems, IBM Cary, NC  (919-469-7242)

os/2 font programming

#636

Author: Peter Forsberg
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 08:00

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In <9204071816.AA06161@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> "Pat Mueller" writes:
>You can get by with the OS/2 1.3 Programming Guide and the OS/2 1.3
>Programming Reference Vol 1.  I'm playing with a program now that
>generates metafiles with ATM font-ed text is them.  You need to do a
>WinInitialize() to create the hab, but after that you can get by with
>just Dev...() and Gpi...() calls, which means you don't need a window
>message queue, which means the program will run in text mode.  One
>gotcha is that to query the printer capabilities (clip regions for
>particular forms your printer supports), you need to figure out what
>printers and queues you have on your system.  You need to use Prf...()
>calls to determine this, and these require a message queue, so the
>program no longer runs in text mode.  I don't know anywhere else this
>stuff might be documented besides these two manuals (but there might be
>something somewhere).
>
>Patrick Mueller
>pmuellr@vnet.ibm.com
>Programming Systems, IBM Cary, NC  (919-469-7242)
>

Also, the latest number of IBM Personal Systems Developer had an article
on font programming written by Dave Reich, IBM Boca Raton. It should be
quite up to date. I think the number was called "Winter 1992".

Peter
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Peter Forsberg           E-mail:  peterf@vnet.ibm.com          (primary)
                                  d88-pfo@nada.kth.se        (alternate)
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