If the Fonts folder is installed,
&xwp; will automatically make all data files which appear to be font files
on your system "font files".
Font files do not behave much differently from regular data files... except
for the following:
- They automatically receive a default file type of "Font file".
- If no associations exist for that type (or the file's extension), font files
receive a different default icon.
- Only font files can be dropped onto the Fonts folder in order to
allow you to quickly install fonts.
Presently, files with the following extensions will be turned into font files:
.TTF
, .TTC
: These are the extensions for TrueType
font files.
It is assumed that your &os2; system can display TrueType fonts. This is
the case for Warp 4 (and higher) without any special preparations. On Warp 3, you have
to install the FreeType/2 engine -- but this is recommended for Warp 4 as well because
its display quality is better.
.OFM
: These are the special files which make Adobe Type-1
fonts (with the .PFB
extension) accessible to &os2;. In order for &os2;
to be able to install a Type-1 font file, you need both an .OFM
and
a .PFB
file, but only the .OFM
file will actually be
stored in the system's font registry (and therefore only the .OFM
file
is turned into an &xwp; font file).
.FON
files represent bitmap fonts. Even though these are properly
listed in the Fonts folder, there may be problems with the sample view of these files.