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Chapter 4 - Font Manager / Font Manager Reference

Routines / Scaling Outline Fonts

GetPreserveGlyph

The GetPreserveGlyph function determines whether the Font Manager preserves the shapes of glyphs from outline fonts.

FUNCTION GetPreserveGlyph: Boolean;

DESCRIPTION

The GetPreserveGlyph function returns a Boolean value indicating whether the Font Manager preserves the shapes of glyphs from outline fonts. Your application can set the value of this variable with the SetPreserveGlyph procedure. If GetPreserveGlyph returns TRUE, the Font Manager preserves glyph shapes; if GetPreserveGlyph returns FALSE, then the Font Manager scales glyphs to fit between the ascent and descent lines for the font in use.

ASSEMBLY-LANGUAGE INFORMATION

The trap macro and routine selector for the GetPreserveGlyph function are

Trap macro	Routine selector
_FontDispatch	$700B

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