Questions tagged [font-linking]
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Is it possible to determine the fonts Windows chooses for font-linking?
Suppose you have a string with text in two or more scripts. When you use a GDI function like TextOut, (modern versions of) Windows will do "font-linking". That is, GDI will draw what it can with your selected font and draw the rest in an…
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Check if Unicode character is displayed or tofu
My question is similar to this one, but a little step-forward.
In my Win32 program I have some menu button with Unicode characters above BMP, such as U+1F5A4 (UTF-16 surrogate pairs 0xD83D 0xDDA4).
In Windows 10 the system font Segoe UI doesn't…
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How do specific browsers prevent downloaded fonts from being available to other applications
As this is a stated requirement of the Web Fonts specification can someone explain to me how individual browsers handle this? I understand that IE temporary installs the font only for the period the font is required, but can find no mention of how…
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Scroll to the bottom doesn't work due to font link
Can someone please explain what's going on here?
As you can see in the example, the scroll does not go all the way down to the bottom
This is of course a problem as it does not behave according to the instructions, which is:
scrollIntoView() or…
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FontLink with Myriad Pro in Win XP
I have a C# application running on WinXP that needs to display some symbols, but all I'm getting are squares. I did some digging around and found font linking.
I used it successfully with Arial and Calibri, I cannot get it to work with Myriad Pro.
I…
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