Microsoft KB Archive/82825

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How a Font Is Embedded into a Document

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Q82825

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Windows versions 3.1, 3.11

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SUMMARY
TrueType fonts can be embedded or packaged into a document and transported from one machine to another that does not have the embedded font, and the embedded fonts will be available for use. Thus, documents are fully portable across both Apple Macintosh and MS-DOS-compatible computers.

MORE INFORMATION
Only TrueType fonts that have the proper licensing bits set (that indicate the font vendor has given permission for the font to be used as an embedded font) can be embedded into a document. An application must have special support for handling the embedding of TrueType fonts and their installation upon reaching the destination system.

There are new APIs (application programming interfaces) with Windows 3.1 that an application must call in order to embed a TrueType font into a document and in order to install a TrueType font at the application level.

Additional query words: 3.10

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Technology : kbWin3xSearch kbWin310 kbWin311