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Article #36631Re: GEM Fonts, GEM FED, GDOS Fonts
From: Eric Gisin
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1989 18:39
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1989 18:39
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In article <1130@sdcc15.ucsd.edu>, pa1132@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (pa1132) writes: > 1. What really are "GEM fonts"? .FED or .Fnt fonts? What is the > difference between these two? I don't know. > 2. The vdit file does not mention if the undocumented load_font > function requires GDOS or not. I assume not. Thus, can it only > load .FED fonts? Can it be modified to load the regular GDOS fonts > thus that a program can use this interface to load/use GDOS fonts without > the presence of the GDOS and the assign.sys trouble? No, the undocumented load_font function does not require GDOS (it may not even work if you have GDOS). It actually doesn't load fonts at all, it just registers with the VDI a list of fonts that your application has loaded. You can then use the regular VDI functions to select these fonts. I supplied a routine to load .FED-format fonts, but that could be rewritten to load other font formats.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uxc!iuvax!watmath!mks!egisin From: egisin@mks.UUCP (Eric Gisin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: GEM Fonts, GEM FED, GDOS Fonts Message-ID: <671@mks.UUCP> Date: 18 Feb 89 18:39:01 GMT References: <1130@sdcc15.ucsd.edu> Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont. Lines: 17