Syntax Trouble with ATSFontActivate

[JoeKoomen2011]

I can't seem to get ATSFontActivate to work for me. Has anyone here used it successfully? Please show me a sample of your code if possible. I'm sure it's a syntax problem on my part. (I could probably use the same for ATSFontDeactivate.)

[JoeKoomen2011]

Okay. Problem wasn't with my syntax. The "font name" is not the same as the file's name. When you open it up in a font editor you find that there's lots of other characters...

[Mike]

I can't seem to get ATSFontActivate to work for me. Has anyone here used it successfully? Please show me a sample of your code if possible. I'm sure it's a syntax problem on my part. (I could probably use the same for ATSFontDeactivate.)

I've been using it in my recent apps with no problems. Here's an example from one of my projects:

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  writeLog("Setting up application specific fonts")
  global gFontRef
  put projPath(this proj) & "Yenco Symbols.ttf" into tPath
  put ATSFontActivate(tPath) into gFontRef
  writeLog("Font setup complete")

It is my understanding that when you quit your app the font is automatically deactivated so you shouldn't need to explicitly use ATSFontDeactivate unless for some reason you want to stop having access to your font prior to quitting.

HTH

[JoeKoomen2011]

Thanks Mike, good to know.

My big issue is fonts whose names are different in the System than they are named in the finder. Even font utilities like Suitcase don't show the name that SuperCard wants to see. I have to crack them open to find out what they're really called.

To be frank, I've been embedding fonts in the resource fork since forever. I'm finally getting with the times....

[Mike]

Thanks Mike, good to know.

My big issue is fonts whose names are different in the System than they are named in the finder. Even font utilities like Suitcase don't show the name that SuperCard wants to see. I have to crack them open to find out what they're really called.

To be frank, I've been embedding fonts in the resource fork since forever. I'm finally getting with the times....

Hi Joe,

I don't know. You could look through the following PDF for some clues perhaps (this was the original reference I believe I pointed Mark to although I believe it was the HTML version of this which no longer seems to be available*):

http://developer.apple.com/legacy/mac/library/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/ATS_Concepts/ManagingFonts.pdf

*It seems that Apple has now depreciated the ATS stuff and has moved to Core Text instead (at least, that's what turned up when I went back to try to find the HTML version of the ATS Font documentation).