On 05/29/2013 03:31 PM, Warren Samples wrote:
On 05/29/2013 07:09 AM, Richmond wrote:
Those chars that are in the standard Unicode places are substituted for
a standard Windows-native font,
but those in the PPU area are left as they are, kerning rules in either
the font or inwith Livecode itslef are over-ridden by Windows; something
that does not happen with Macintosh, Linux or Windows XP.
From my point of view, at least, this is a "show stopper" for Windows
V, 7 and 8.
I have been digging around in the LC Documentation and found
'revFontLoad' which looks
as though it might be a possibility, except that it seems to rely on
absolute paths, when one cannot rely
on an end-user putting one's homegrown font exactly where one wants it
to be.
I would be grateful if anybody who has run up against this or similar
problems and has found a way to circumvent them could let me (and the
use-list!) know of how they coped with this.
Richmond.
Richmond, you've been trying get help with this for some time now and
I don't recall seeing anyone respond with anything really helpful for
you. I suspect that it's because your project and your problem are
rather specialized. What happens if you use your font in some other
app? Does it work as you would expect it to in other apps or do you
get the same substitutions? Is it a LiveCode issue or maybe a Windows
issue? Does using revFontLoad resolve the problem on a test machine?
If you install the font using a script, you should be able to control
where it goes. Why not out install it where Windows expects user
installed fonts to be?
Aha; well as a non-Windows user (except for the odd bit of testing) I
would be most grateful if you could tell me where
Windows expects user installed fonts to be, as I don't have a clue.
Perhaps you could find a a utility to make a proper Windows installer
and have it put your font where it needs to go?
Good luck!
Warren
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