Subj : Re: system font
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Ed Mulroy
Date : Tue Jul 05 2005 07:18 pm

The system font is a bit mapped font and is not scalable.  To scale a font 
size you want a TrueType font.

You seem to want a fixed-width font.  Courier New is a TrueType font and, 
unlike most fonts of that type, is fixed-width.  Try using it.

Others you might try are the BorTE font which came with your copy of Borland 
C++ or, if you have them, one of Lucida, Lucida Sans and Lucida Sans 
Typewriter, the latter of which is my favorite and the one I select for use 
in my IDE and editors.

..  Ed

> Jack Sawatzky wrote in message
> news:42caeb59$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> When I call CreateFont() with "SYSTEM" it gives me a font that is
> ten pixels high, no matter how low I set the Weight and Height
> parameters.  The font I want is 9 pixels high; it is the font you
> see in nearly every Windows listing. Therefore "system" may not
> be the right name.   EnumFontFamilies() wont do me any good,
> because I don't know what name to look for.  MS Shell Dlg
> didn't get me anywhere either.
> The font I want is everywhere in Windows.  It must be available
> somehow.  How?

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