>>>Hi all, I need to knows where are fonts in the client machine and how to register new fonts in the distribution or programmatically.
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>>>Thanks in advance!!!!!!
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>>While Doug's correct that in
most cases the directory is WINDOWS\FONTS, it may not be necessarily true in every case. The Windows Script Host can retrieve this information this way:
oShell = CREATEOBJECT("WScript.Shell")
>>lcfontdir = oShell.SpecialFolders.Item("Fonts")
>
>Or you can just use:
>
>lcFontDir = GETENV("windir")+"\fonts"
>
>if you don't want to wait for the WSH to get rolling or don't have it installed.
Then use the registry or Win32 API... I recommend using an installer that handles the process properly and checks permissions, etc - NT and especially Win2K are likely going to puke on you dumping stuff into system directories.