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Hi all

For a special app, I need to have one font for display in a textbox.
The app then processes the glyphs in order to get the vectors of the single glyphs.
No problem so far.

In reality, I don't want to process the font which is used for display, but another font.
This other font shall be not visible for users, at least not in the font selection gadget.

I found in Windows there are some fonts which begin with an @.
This @ makes that a font selection gadget doesn't list this special font.

So I thought my 'replacement' font could use the same @ as the first character of the font name.
When I try using Font Creator, I don't know which name I have to change.
I think I am through all possibilities, but in the end I never get a TT font that has such a name.

(I know @ is for vertical fonts, but as a hack to make it invisible this would be ok.)

Ideas?

The '@' appears in the font selection box of some applications but it is not in the font name. Windows adds the @ sign before fonts which have been hidden by the computre user.

As far as I know you can't use that character in a valid font name. Also many applications ignore the 'Hidden' status of the font and display it anyway, albeit with a '@' sign as the first character.

You could try to find a way for the program to set the 'Hidden' flag in Windows for that font which would cause the font to disappear from many font selection dialogs for many applications.

The '@' appears in the font selection box of some applications but it is not in the font name. Windows adds the @ sign before fonts which have been hidden by the computre user.

Aha, thanks for the clarification.
I thought it is a setting somewhere in the font file itself.

Ok, then I know what to do in here:
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Font Management\Inactive Fonts

Solved.

No, that wasn't it.

Hiding a font here:
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Font Management\Inactive Fonts

...does not make the @ as a leading character when the fonts get enumerated.
Means my 'problem' is NOT solved yet.

If someone knows more regarding the @, please don't hesitate to tell me.