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In article <faheyr.663140235@silver> faheyr@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Bob Fahey <NECR0SIS>) writes:
>I am programming a utility in C (lattice), and need to open a specific
>font off of a disk. (the font is already stored in the fonts: dir of 
>my boot disk).
>
>How do you go about opening that disk-based font? I have tried and tried,
>but seem to only be able to open the rombased fonts....
>What exactly needs to be opened before you can call OpenFont()? Every
>time I have tried doing this, either the computer guru's, or it just 
>simply does not open the font....

First you have to open the diskfont library:
 
DiskfontBase = (struct DiskfontBase *)OpenLibrary("diskfont.library",0L);

Then you have to open the font itself using an initialized TextAttr
structure:
 
struct TextFont *tf ;
tf = (struct TextFont *)OpenDiskFont((struct TextAttr *)myfontattr);
                            ^^^^
There is actually a bit more to it than this (since the font might
already be in memory) but this is the general idea :) Don't forget 
to close the font again before you exit:

CloseFont( tf ); 

bj

>Bob

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