Mac OS 8 and 9 Developer Documentation: Font Manager

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The Font Manager keeps track of all fonts available to an application. You can use the Font Manager to determine the characteristics of a font, change certain font settings, favor outline fonts over bitmapped fonts, and manipulate fonts in memory. With Mac OS 9 and Carbon 1.0, additions to the Font Manager API now allow support for more comprehensive font management: listing, installing, activating, and deactivating font files and maintaining a repository of font data.


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		Font Management for Carbon 1.0 and Mac OS 9 [PDF] This preliminary document describes the Font Management API that has been added to the Font Manager with Mac OS 9 and Carbon 1.0. Features discussed include support for enumerating fonts and font families, accessing information about fonts and font families, accessing font data, creating and managing a basic font menu, activating and deactivating fonts, and notifying clients of changes in the font database.

		Inside Macintosh: Text (Chapter 4 -Font Manager) This document describes Macintosh text-handling interfaces. See Chapter 4 for a discussion of the Font Manager.