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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 TTFONTS 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 printer.
                     15: 
                     16: More Information:
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                     18: The program is designed to provide the user an easy
                     19: interface to the API calls related to the font system.  It
                     20: will not protect against meaningless values, nor will it
                     21: hide system oddities.  Most of the buttons on the toolbar
                     22: are self explanatory and represent a single system API.
                     23: 
                     24: Pressing the EnumFonts button will show all of the face
                     25: names listed horizontally, and each of the fonts within that
                     26: face name listed vertically below it.  TrueType fonts will
                     27: be marked with a small colored "TT" bitmap.  Fonts that have
                     28: the DEVICE_FONTTYPE bit on will be marked with a small
                     29: bitmap image of a printer.  When the enumeration windows are
                     30: showing the user can click the left mouse button to copy the
                     31: information about a selected font into the LOGFONT and
                     32: TEXTMETRIC dialogs.  The user can dismiss this window
                     33: without changing the dialog boxes by clicking with the right
                     34: mouse button or typing any character.
                     35: 
                     36: The "Display" window is able to operate in any one of three
                     37: modes.  These are listed in the "Display" menu.  The first
                     38: just writes "Hello" in the middle of the screen, and it
                     39: grids the background.  This is useful when utilizing the
                     40: lfEscapement and lfOrientation fields of the LOGFONT structure.
                     41: The second mode writes all of the glyphs between the tmFirstChar
                     42: and tmLastChar values stored in the TEXTMETRIC structure.  The
                     43: final mode is used only for true type fonts.  It calls
                     44: GetFontData, finds the 'cmap' table, and displays glyphs from
                     45: the different ranges in this table.  Use the horizontal scroll
                     46: bar in the display window to step through the ranges.
                     47: 
                     48: Notice:
                     49: 
                     50: There is a font distributed on the Win32 SDK disk which covers
                     51: more than one thousand unicode characters.  In order to use this
                     52: application to its full potential, you will want to install that
                     53: font using the Control Panel, Fonts item.  The font is named
                     54: l_10646.TTF.

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