Hi Bobby, I've never embedded fonts in an application myself. The "normal" way would be by installing the required font alongside the application when distributed.
After some research I found out that fonts in resources need to be ordinal values (so ABC isn't valid, but 123 is). Next problem I encountered was that the compiler gave me an "Invalid Font Format" error when I tried to compile this: ========================== 123 FONT "arial.ttf" ========================== I also tried a fon-font, but that gave me the same error as well: ========================== 123 FONT "coure.fon" ========================== The error suggests that there must be *some* font-format that is supported, although I can't find anything about that. When I compile the resource with "TTF" as descriptor... ========================== 123 TTF "arial.ttf" ========================== ...it actually does compile, but I wonder if that would be the correct resource-type for TTF-fonts. Doing a search about this topic only gave me very few leads, but this one's the most interesting: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.pascal.delphi.components.misc/tree/ browse_frm/month/1999-10?_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.lang.pascal.delphi.components .misc%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fmonth%2F1999-10%3F& Hope you'll succeed in your quest, Peter. -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]namens Bobby Clarke Verzonden: zondag 28 juni 2009 13:56 Aan: [email protected] Onderwerp: Re: [delphi-en] Failure to use font as a resource Hi Peter Thanks for the response. I have tried several things: In the rc file, I added double quotes round the file name. I suspect that these are only necessary if there is a space in the file name somewhere. Anyway the result was the same. I was aware of the {$R 'MyResource.res' 'MyResource.rc'} syntax but had never got it to compile, even on Build and after modifying the rc file in case the compiler was really clever. I think that the quotes are not required. I had not tried it in the project file. I have now but still I cannot get it to compile. However, this is not a problem, as I can compile rc to res with the bat file containing brcc32.exe. In the rc file FONT gives an error whereas RT_FONT compiles without error. I had a look for my original discs but failed. I also looked for an on-line download of Resource Workshop but didn't find it anywhere. Has anyone used Fonts in a Resource file successfully? Bobby
