TrueType Font Support

Starting with version 6, VX can read TrueType and Windows Fonts. In VX, fonts are specified in the file vx_font_table found in the "/supp" folder of your VX install directory.  Create a "local"directory under your current user directory and copy the file there before editing with an ASCII text editor.

Previously only native VX fonts could be listed in this file. TrueType and other fonts can now be included in this file as well. These non-native fonts will automatically be converted to the native VX format. Native VX font files have to be of the format vx*.fnt. If for example arial.ttf is added as font number 30, then vxfont30.fnt will automatically be created and used by VX.

Below is a sample vx_font_table:

3

1,vxfont01.fnt

2,vxfont02.fnt

3,vxfont03.fnt

4,vxfont04.fnt

5,vxfont05.fnt

6,vxfont06.fnt

7,vxfont07.fnt

8,vxfont08.fnt

9,vxfont09.fnt

10,vxfont10.fnt

11,vxfont11.fnt

12,vxfont12.fnt

13,vxfont13.fnt

14,vxfont14.fnt

15,vxfont15.fnt

16,vxfont16.fnt

17,vxfont17.fnt

18,vxfont18.fnt

19,vxfont19.fnt

20,vxfont20.fnt

21,vxfont21.fnt

22,vxfont22.fnt

23,vxfont23.fnt

24,vxfont24.fnt

25,vxfont25.fnt

26,vxfont26.fnt

27,arial.ttf

28,ARIALN.TTF

29,CENTURY.TTF

30,times.ttf

Once VX runs, the files vxfont27.fnt, vxfont28.fnt, vxfont29.fnt and vxfont30.fnt will have been created in the supp directory below the current working directory (i.e., your user directory). VX will look for font files in the following directories on a Windows system:

C:\Windows (or whatever the correct system directory happens to be)

C:\Windows\Fonts

C:\Windows\System

C:\Windows\System32

Any of the VX recognized directories will also be searched:

.\

.\text

.\shlib

.\shbin

.\bin

.\supp

.\local

$VX_PATH\

$VX_PATH\text

$VX_PATH\shlib

$VX_PATH\shbin

$VX_PATH\bin

$VX_PATH\supp

$VX_PATH\local