FONTDIFF structure (winddi.h)

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The FONTDIFF structure describes all of the characteristics that are different between a base font and one of its simulations.

Syntax

typedef struct _FONTDIFF {
  BYTE   jReserved1;
  BYTE   jReserved2;
  BYTE   jReserved3;
  BYTE   bWeight;
  USHORT usWinWeight;
  FSHORT fsSelection;
  FWORD  fwdAveCharWidth;
  FWORD  fwdMaxCharInc;
  POINTL ptlCaret;
} FONTDIFF;

Members

jReserved1

jReserved2

jReserved3

Are reserved for system use.

bWeight

Specifies the Panose weight.

usWinWeight

Specifies the weight of the font in the range 0 to 1000 (for example, 400 is normal and 700 is bold). This value is provided to the application in the lfWeight member of the Win32 LOGFONT structure.

fsSelection

Specifies a combination of the following flags:

Value Meaning
FM_SEL_BOLD Set if the characters of the font are bold.
FM_SEL_ITALIC Set if the characters of the font are italic.
FM_SEL_NEGATIVE Set if the characters of the font have the foreground and background reversed.
FM_SEL_OUTLINED Set if the characters of the font are hollow.
FM_SEL_REGULAR Set if the characters of the font are normal weight.
FM_SEL_STRIKEOUT Set if the characters of the font are struck out by default; otherwise strikeouts must be simulated.
FM_SEL_UNDERSCORE Set if all the characters of the font are underscored by default; otherwise underscoring must be simulated.

fwdAveCharWidth

Specifies the arithmetic average of the width of all of the 26 lower case letters 'a' through 'z' of the Latin alphabet and the space character. If any of the 26 lowercase letters are not present, then this member should be set equal to the weighted average of all glyphs in the font.

fwdMaxCharInc

Specifies the maximum character increment of all glyphs in the font.

ptlCaret

Specifies a POINTL structure that indicates the direction of the ascender direction of the font. For example, the value for a nonitalicized Latin font is (0,1) while an italicized Latin font might specify a value of (2,5).

Remarks

If a font has already been emboldened, the only possible remaining simulation is italicization, yielding a bold italic simulation. Similarly, an italicized font can only be emboldened, also yielding a bold italic simulation.

For descriptions of the FSHORT and FWORD data types, see GDI Data Types.

Requirements

Requirement Value
Header winddi.h (include Winddi.h)

See also

FONTSIM