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Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python?

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On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:25:55 -0700 (PDT), Metallicow
<metaliobovinus@gmail.com> declaimed the following:

>On Thursday, July 11, 2013 12:47:01 PM UTC-5, Nobody wrote:
>> 
>> What makes you think the system *has* a system font directory?
>
>Way back when I was kid, I remember a computer that had two colors and 1 built-in font and no mouse. Heck the keyboard was even attached in front a tube screen box. 
>Wow... those were the days. And to think I hated that thing...
>
>If the OS doesn't *have* a dedicated system fonts dir that is accessable by the user, then I am not that much interested in dealing with it. Rendering a font from a other location will eventually be worked in, but that isn't the problem at hand.

	Back in history, my W98se box ran a program called Adobe Type Manager.
I had fonts spread across a number of directories, in bitmap, TrueType, and
PostScript formats.

	My WinXP box ran a program called "Font Reserve", using the same
mishmash of directories -- but it created shortcuts of the active fonts in
the system fonts directory. Unfortunately, it didn't support "Multiple
Master" font types, which ATM did, so I lost access to one font family
("Multiple Master" fonts were configurable -- for a simple one, one could
maybe specify stroke width, and character width, then generate a "use" font
from those specs).

	I need to study how Win7 handles fonts, since I don't want to dump the
entire mishmash into the system directory.
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
    wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python? Metallicow <metaliobovinus@gmail.com> - 2013-07-11 08:32 -0700
  Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python? Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2013-07-11 17:48 +0200
  Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python? Metallicow <metaliobovinus@gmail.com> - 2013-07-11 08:54 -0700
    Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python? Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2013-07-11 18:12 +0200
  Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python? Metallicow <metaliobovinus@gmail.com> - 2013-07-11 10:19 -0700
    Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python? Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> - 2013-07-12 03:27 +0200
      Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python? Metallicow <metaliobovinus@gmail.com> - 2013-07-11 21:24 -0700
        Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-07-12 04:55 +0000
        Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-12 14:58 +1000
  Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python? Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2013-07-11 18:47 +0100
    Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python? Metallicow <metaliobovinus@gmail.com> - 2013-07-11 11:25 -0700
      Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-07-11 20:13 -0400
      Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python? Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2013-07-12 22:36 -0700
        Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python? Metallicow <metaliobovinus@gmail.com> - 2013-07-12 23:38 -0700
          Re: How do I get the OS System Font Directory(Cross-Platform) in python? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-07-13 07:20 +0000

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