[comp.windows.ms] Font Downloader - a simple windows project for someone

asmith@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Adam Smith) (04/03/91)

I need, as do I assume a number of people, a very simple utility.
I want to be able to download fonts from within windows to a PostScript 
printer without a ton of hassles. I have various kludges set up to take care 
of it, but it seems to me that a much more elegant solution MUST be 
possible.

So I put it to all you hotshot Windows Programmer types. Would any of you 
like to take up the cause. All I want is a utility that presents a list of 
all the .PFB files in a chosen subdir, a way to select the fonts I want 
d/led, (perhaps a way to setup "font groups" for commonly used 
combinations), a "send 'em" button to intiate the d/ling, and a warning if 
something has gone wrong/conformation that everything is cool.

The biggest trick to the whole thing, it seems to me, is making absolute 
certain that it takes it CPU cycles evenly and predictably so that other 
Windows events don't sabotage it.

Any takers?



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