Legacy Document
Important: The information in this document is obsolete and should not be used for new development.
Important: The information in this document is obsolete and should not be used for new development.
Routines
This section describes the routines you use to initialize the Font Manager and to get information about a font, such as its name, ID, or measurements. It also describes the routines you use to get a handle to a font and to control aspects of the way the Font Manager manipulates fonts, such as font scaling and fractional widths.
- WARNING
- Do not change any data in a font or in any of the font data structures or global variables (except where expressly noted).
Subtopics
- Initializing the Font Manager
- Getting Font Information
- Using the Current, System, and Application Fonts
- Getting the Characteristics of a Font
- Enabling Fractional Glyph Widths
- Disabling Font Scaling
- Favoring Outline Fonts Over Bitmapped Fonts
- Scaling Outline Fonts
- Accessing Information About a Font
- Handling Fonts in Memory