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Including Fonts in Project Manager
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24/09/1997 20:42:48
 
 
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23/09/1997 11:24:38
Edward Crawford
City Facilities Management
Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Project manager
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00050156
Message ID:
00051509
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46
>>>>>>>>>>Does anyone know if there is a way to include a font in the project manager? I use a wingding font,and it shows up improperly on my users machine because they do not have that font on their machine.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>Ed
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Ed,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>I believe that you need to install the font on their machines. I'm not 100% about this, but I think that's what you need to do.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Steve
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>if the font is not installed on the client's machine, it needs to be. there have been several threads recently about using api functions to do this...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Thanks. The MS article Q139172 states that the Win32api.hlp file can be found in the CD online documentation for VFP 5.0. I can't find it anywhere. Do you happen to know where it is?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Ed
>>>>>>
>>>>>>(if you installed everything) set help to win32api.hlp
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks Dave. For some reason my documentation is only partially installed.
>>>>>
>>>>>Ed
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Wait a minute.....do you have a license to redistribute the font?
>>>>
>>>>Craig
>>>
>>>The font is part of the Windows 95 Operating System.
>>
>>Then the end user needs to install it. You do not have license to redistribute it.
>
>This is all in-house stuff; I'm redistributing nothing. I just want to do it automatically.

You should look at something like Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) to handle properly installing Windows.

Craig
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer
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