font creation

[theEclipse]

I would like to know if anyone knows how to create a windows font by hand, or in a generator program. Robert Carpenter
questions? comments? thanks? email me!
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AIM & MSN: robacarp

 

[Zyrenthian]

I created a font about 3 years ago. I think the name of the program was "softy". I will look through my archives and see if I can find it though I doubt I still have it.

Matt

 

[IonelBurtan]

Did you mean to create a FONT inside a program?
(If you meant creating a .ttf or .fon file don't read below.)

You have to fill in a LOGFONT structure and the call CreateFontIndirect with your logfont structure as parameter.

typedef struct tagLOGFONT {
LONG lfHeight;
LONG lfWidth;
LONG lfEscapement;
LONG lfOrientation;
LONG lfWeight;
BYTE lfItalic;
BYTE lfUnderline;
BYTE lfStrikeOut;
BYTE lfCharSet;
BYTE lfOutPrecision;
BYTE lfClipPrecision;
BYTE lfQuality;
BYTE lfPitchAndFamily;
TCHAR lfFaceName[LF_FACESIZE];
} LOGFONT, *PLOGFONT;

HFONT CreateFontIndirect(
CONST LOGFONT* lplf // characteristics
);

Read from MSDN about these issues and you will be able to create your own fonts at runtime s-)

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