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- Using the Font Manager from your own Applications
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- Because I have made it so very easy for you to
- create your own Font Manager scripts, it should
- not be too much trouble to integrate it's
- functions into your own applications. What goes
- hand-in-hand with this is the freedom I have
- given you to supply this application with your
- own software packages. This means that you can
- be sure the user of your software has !FontMGR2.
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- The first means by which you can support
- !FontMGR2 is by giving any file formats you
- have made to me in writing with some suitable
- example files or the editor that made them.
- The information will then be used to ensure
- !FontMGR2's DocScan can recognise your file
- format and process the font use described within
- it. I would strongly reccomend you do this!
-
- Otherwise you may choose to support !FontMGR2
- yourself...
-
- If <FontMGR2$Dir> doesn't exist, then the user
- hasn't got, or has decided not to use !FontMGR2.
- Oh well, there is little one can do for such
- people!
-
- If <FontMGR2$Dir> does exist then you need to
- make a simple script describing which fonts you
- wish to FontHunt for such as the one shown below:
-
- FMGR
-
- *FONTS*
- {
- Bodoni
- Caslon
- Becker
- Revue
- }
-
- *END*
-
- Then investiagate the value of "F$Running". If it
- is "FALSE" then common sense would tell you
- !FontMGR2 isn't currently running. So you need to
- execute a command such as the one shown below,
- using the SWI "Wimp_StartTask":
-
- <FontMGR2$Dir>.Resources.BootFonts <Wimp$Scrap>
-
- Otherwise you need to execute a command such as
- the one shown below via the SWI "OS_CLI":
-
- Filer_Run <Wimp$Scrap>
-
- Please feel free to fax or write to me concerning
- "getting this to work".
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