How can I, if possible, use a fontfile (ttf/otf) in Ms Access, without installing it as font in Windows?
If I use a custom font, I can't be sure, that the user has install the font.
No. Somehow the font must be installed first.
That may even require admin rights.
If a font is not present, a close (installed) replacement font will be used
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I want to try to make chromium fonts less blurry without resorting to using patches to enable an old and problematic GDI that was removed ~50 versions ago. In the SKIA engine discussion group, I found information that you can try to use the backend freetype for this purpose (https://groups.google.com/g/skia-discuss/c/Z0WBnnxJTrk). And I don't quite understand how to do it. After looking at the source code, I found that different font managers are used for different operating systems. The default for Windows is SkFontMgr_New_DirectWrite(); But there is also SkFontMgr_New_Custom_Empty(); whose description reads:
/** Create a custom font manager that contains no built-in fonts.
* This font manager uses FreeType for rendering.
*/
(https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:third_party/skia/include/ports/SkFontMgr_empty.h)
Do I understand correctly that I need to replace the font manager?
By the way, I found a patch that includes opentype support, but it's already 3 years old and some files are no longer in the sources (https://codereview.chromium.org/2780133002/#ps140001).
In Visual studio 2019, I am using the SQL Server Integration Services extension to create SSIS packages. I cannot find a way in Tools > Options > Fonts and Colors to change the font for the task text editor windows. (See image showing the editor windows I am referring to.) I'd like to change the font to a fixed width font, like Consolas, but I cannot find a way to do that. Creating SQL queries, etc. with a font like Tahoma is maddening. Does anyone know how to change the font?
Image showing text editor window in question
This has been an issue as long as SSIS has existed, and probably even the DTS days. It's maddening because it's so obviously wrong, but I get the sense that Microsoft simply doesn't care. SSDT has been on life-support for years.
tl;dr: you can't.
With latest phpStorm 9 we have new feature called simultaneous tags editing.
This is generally very nice feature that i'd like to use, but i have one old project with very bad code with a lot of mixed PHP, HTML and JS code, where it breaks code.
I know i can disable this in settings->editor->General->simultaneous tag editing, but it disables this feature for whole phpStorm. Is there way to disable it only per one project?
Is there way to disable it only per one project?
Nope -- this is an IDE-wide setting.
The only possible solution I can think of is to have separate PhpStorm installation that will use custom folders to store IDE settings (look into idea.properties file from PhpStorm distribution, e.g. on Windows 7 it would typically be %PhpStorm-Install-Folder%\bin\idea.properties).
With IDE settings stored in different location you can now configure this installation with different settings (e.g. have that option turned off). Obviously, all settings here will be different to your original setup, unless you configure it the same way or will keep certain config files synced (e.g. Keymaps, Color, Web Servers, Live Templates and other things could easily be synced on file level).
Just remember to launch this installation when you want to work with that specific project.
I developed an AIR Application, and now i want to add one of those License Text Frames to the install process.
Is this possible?
what i've done is wrap the .air installer inside a native installer. for example, on Mac OS X, you could use the application DMG Canvas (free, $15 donationware), which includes an EULA feature, to create a .dmg for the .air installer. i'm sure a similar approach could be taken for Windows as well.
of course, though, this method isn't ideal for simple AIR cross-platformability, but in my case, and perhaps in yours, i had to package AIR native installers anyway since i was using native processes in my application so adding this extra EULA step wasn't so much of a stretch.
From everything I am seeing, this isn't possible.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/air_badge_install.html
It doesn't look like there is a mechanism to show and have the user accept an end user license agreement at installation. I will dig around some more and update this answer if I find something.
What you could do instead is show the license agreement on the first run of the application and do not allow them to continue if they do not accept. You would also need to store the acceptance so you don't show it again, etc.
When you try to select a font of type .otf that has been installed on Client & Server then the font does not appear in the dropdown list of available fonts.
The font can be used fine in word.
Got a response back from MS. Apparently otf fonts aren't supported in .net and hence not SSRS.
So basically no!