HOWTO: License the MS LineDraw TrueType Font

• Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) 3.1
• Microsoft Win32 Application Programming Interface (API), used with:
  • Microsoft Windows NT, versions 3.51, 4.0
  • Microsoft Windows 95
  • Microsoft Win32s version 1.3

SUMMARY

Some Microsoft applications, including Microsoft Word, are shipped with a TrueType font named MS LineDraw. This font is located in the "linedraw.ttf" font file and contains glyphs for the line drawing characters of the extended ASCII character set. Many earlier MS-DOS applications use the extended ASCII MS LineDraw characters to produce text-based graphics.

Windows application developers have expressed interest in the MS LineDraw font as a means of maintaining some form of backward compatibility with their previous MS-DOS-based applications. Developers can use the MS LineDraw font in their applications by licensing it from Monotype. To license MS LineDraw, contact Wade Farrell at Monotype:

   Telephone: 1-800-MONOTYPE, (312)855-1440

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   E-mail: oemsales@monotypeusa.com<BR/>

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  Visit their website and get help:
  http://www.monotypeusa.com 

MORE INFORMATION

An alternative to licensing MS LineDraw is to use the GDI functions of the Windows SDK to directly draw any graphics required by the application. By using GDI, developers eliminate the potentially troublesome task of aligning glyphs on various and differing devices. Backward compatibility is achieved by converting the data to the representative characters from the extended ASCII character set when it is interchanged with the MS-DOS-based applications.

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Keywords          : kbgraphic kbAPI kbNTOS351 kbNTOS400 kbSDKWin32 kbWin32s kbWinOS310 kbDSupport 
Version           : WINDOWS:1.3,3.1,95; winnt:3.51,4.0
Platform          : WINDOWS winnt 
Issue type        : kbhowto 

Last Reviewed: June 25, 1999