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Chapter 4 - Font Manager / Font Manager Reference

Routines / Getting Font Information

GetFNum
The GetFNum procedure gets the font family ID for a specified font family name.
PROCEDURE GetFNum (theName: Str255; VAR familyID: Integer);
theName
The font family name.
familyID
On output, this parameter contains the font family ID for the font family specified in theName.

DESCRIPTION
Given a font name, the GetFNum procedure returns, in the familyID parameter, the font family ID for the font family. If the font specified in the parameter theName does not exist, familyID contains 0.

ASSEMBLY-LANGUAGE INFORMATION
The trap macro for the GetFNum procedure is
Trap macro
_GetFNum