When Presentation Manager is initialized, the engine is responsible for establishing the default image and outline fonts, and the default pattern and marker sets.

The presentation driver can supply device fonts as default fonts. If this is done, the driver can request the graphics engine to manage the device fonts by setting the CAPS_FONT_OUTLINE_MANAGE or CAPS_FONT_IMAGE_MANAGE flag in the array of device capabilities (see GreQueryDeviceCaps). When these flags are set, the engine performs any mapping and transforms that might be necessary. To use a default font belonging to the presentation driver, the font handle is passed to the engine in response to GreQueryDevResource.