Font Directory

This section describes the directory section of a font resource. A font resource contains a directory consisting of a set of structures each containing the metrics of a font and a pointer to the font itself. This font directory is generated by the resource compiler.

The format of the font directory is:

typedef struct {
        USHORT      usHeaderSize;
        USHORT      usnFonts;
        USHORT      usiMETRICS;
        FONTENTRY   fntEntry[1];
} FONTDIRECTORY;

typedef struct {
        USHORT          usIndex;
        FONTFILEMETRICS metrics;
} FONTENTRY;

Where:

usHeaderSize

The size of the header, in bytes.
usnFonts
The number of fonts in the resource.
usiMetrics
The size of the FOCAMETRICS structures that follow the header. Note that the set of metrics for all the fonts in the resource follow the header.
usIndex
The index of a particular font; an identifier assigned to the font when the resource was created (defined in the .RC file).
metrics
The font metrics structure for the font. This is identical to a FOCAMETRICS structure with the addition of the PANOSE fields to the end.

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