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Date:	Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:54:48 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Font Selection (was: OS2.INI PM_Font_Drivers ?)

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In <41A2E950.6583@peterskye.com>, on 11/22/04
at 11:45 PM, Peter Skye said:

>I own eCS. Just not the latest version. So there.

Owning old versions counts as owning the app.

>There's something very strange that happens in Font Palette.

Nothing strange at all. The Font Palette can not magically manufacture
font sizes that the font file does not support.

>Next I go check PM_Fonts and there are *two* HELV keys. One is "HELV"
>pointing to \OS2\DLL\HELV.FON, and the other is "HELV.OFM" pointing to
>\PSFONTS\HELV.OFM". Hmm. So I look again in PM_Fonts for my System VIO
>font and it's not there. Now what the heck...?!?

True. PM_Fonts lists the installed fonts. The System VIO font is owned
by the display driver. It's in dspres.dll and gets installed on the fly
when the driver loads.

Steven

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