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Checking the Text Capabilities of a Device

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You can use the EnumFonts and EnumFontFamilies functions to enumerate the fonts that are available in a printer-compatible memory device context. You can also use the GetDeviceCaps function to retrieve information about the text capabilities of a device. By calling the GetDeviceCaps function with the NUMFONTS index, you can determine the minimum number of fonts supported by a printer. (An individual printer may support more fonts than specified in the return value from GetDeviceCaps with the NUMFONTS index.) By using the TEXTCAPS index, you can identify many of the text capabilities of the specified device.