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1.1     ! root        1: Sample: Demonstration of the Win32 Font API Functions
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        !             3: Summary:
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        !             5: The NTFONTS sample is an easy to use, powerful utility which
        !             6: allows the user to explore the font system.  There is a
        !             7: toolbar on top of the main frame window with buttons that
        !             8: allow the following actions:
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        !            10: 1.Enumerate all of the fonts installed for the display.
        !            11: 2.Get TEXTMETRIC & OUTLINETEXTMETRIC information.
        !            12: 3.Create a font based on an arbitrary LOGFONT structure.
        !            13: 4.Get "font data" by using the GetFontData() API.
        !            14: 5.Enumerate all of the fonts available to the default
        !            15:   printer.
        !            16: 
        !            17: More Information:
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        !            19: The program is designed to provide the user an easy
        !            20: interface to the API calls related to the font system.  It
        !            21: will not protect against meaningless values, nor will it
        !            22: hide system oddities.  Most of the buttons on the toolbar
        !            23: are self explanatory and represent a single system API.
        !            24: 
        !            25: Pressing the EnumFonts button will show all of the face
        !            26: names listed horizontally, and each of the fonts within that
        !            27: face name listed vertically below it.  TrueType fonts will
        !            28: be marked with a small colored "TT" bitmap.  Fonts that have
        !            29: the DEVICE_FONTTYPE bit on will be marked with a small
        !            30: bitmap image of a printer.  When the enumeration windows are
        !            31: showing the user can click the left mouse button to copy the
        !            32: information about a selected font into the LOGFONT and
        !            33: TEXTMETRIC dialogs.  The user can dismiss this window
        !            34: without changing the dialog boxes by clicking with the right
        !            35: mouse button or typing any character.
        !            36: 
        !            37: The "Display" window is able to operate in any one of three
        !            38: modes.  These are listed in the "Display" menu.  The first
        !            39: just writes "Hello" in the middle of the screen, and it
        !            40: grids the background.  This is useful when utilizing the
        !            41: lfEscapement and lfOrientation fields of the LOGFONT structure.
        !            42: The second mode writes all of the glyphs between the tmFirstChar
        !            43: and tmLastChar values stored in the TEXTMETRIC structure.  The
        !            44: final mode is used only for true type fonts.  It calls
        !            45: GetFontData, finds the 'cmap' table, and displays glyphs from
        !            46: the different ranges in this table.  Use the horizontal scroll
        !            47: bar in the display window to step through the ranges.

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