Posted by Philip on 06/20/06 17:07

In article <7NVlg.8640$f76.6537@dukeread06>,
"Peter Olcott" <olcott@att.net> wrote:
> I need the exact FontInstance (a term that I coined) for whatever web-page
> the
> user is currently viewing on whatever browser that they are using. A
> FontInstance specifies all of the characteristics of the font rendering.
> Typeface name, foreground color, background color, italic, bold, underline,
> strikethrough. The most important thing that I need is typeface name, the
> next
> most important thing that I need is point size. I also must have foreground
> and
> background color.

Peter,
As someone else suggested, can you give us a clue as to what context
your code runs in? If you're writing a browser plugin, then what you're
asking for is probably possible. If your code doesn't run in the context
of the browser, you're going to have to code a bunch of fragile hacks
AFAICT.

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Philip
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