The Font Manager is an API that you can use to manage the fonts your application uses to display and print text. You can use the Font Manager to determine the characteristics of a font, change certain font settings, favor outline fonts over bitmapped fonts, and manipulate fonts in memory. This document is relevant for anyone who is writing a text-intensive application that provides comprehensive font management including listing, installing, activating, and deactivating font files and retrieving information from the repository of font data. To use this document, you should understand the basics of fonts, font support on the Macintosh, and how the Font Manager handles fonts.
The programming interface for Font Manager is declared in the following header files:
| Mac OS X header: | ApplicationServices/ApplicationServices.h |
| Mac OS 9 header: | Fonts.h |
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