Using a new TTF (not installed)

Google has been of no help (either it can't be done, or I am searching for the wrong things)..

I have a TTF file (converted from a OTF i got online) that I would like to use in my program. The problem is I don't want to have to install said font on every computer that uses my program, and don't know how to do this..

Help?

PS. I converted the OTF to a TTF because everything I found online says OTF isn't supported in VS, if this is no longer the case I would be happy to stay with OTF (though I don't know how to use that either).

Code:

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        Dim myFonts As PrivateFontCollection
        Dim fontBuffer As IntPtr
        myFonts = New PrivateFontCollection
        Dim font() As Byte = My.Resources.Norse
        fontBuffer = Marshal.AllocCoTaskMem(font.Length)
        Marshal.Copy(font, 0, fontBuffer, font.Length)
        myFonts.AddMemoryFont(fontBuffer, font.Length)

        Label3.Font = New Font(myFonts.Families(0), 14)

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I have the above code.. but the font never actually gets used, just the size and the default font

If you use an installer (MSI installer from Microsoft or something else that's free like Inno) allows you to include font(s) to install as part of the install process.
You can include font(s) that might already exist on the system and it'll gracefully handle that situation too.
That way you can just use the font in your program and the installer will make sure it exists for you.

Yea that would solve all the problems, save for 1.. I don't want to install the font on the computers (and i'm not using an installer, the entire program runs off the compiled exe).

Possibly useful links:

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles...-Installing-It

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...winform-labels

This sounds like it would work, but my font file in stored in the resources section...

Code:

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Dim pfc As PrivateFontCollection = New PrivateFontCollection
pfc.AddFontFile("C:\Path To\PALETX3.ttf")
label1.Font = New Font(pfc.Families(0), 16, FontStyle.Regular)

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and this post

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...ly-in-vb-net-c

has a way to use the font file if it is in the resources section.. (I already have that shown above), but it doesn't work (the font used is the default font, not the one specified)?

Edit:
it's not perfect, but I can get it working if I save the file to disk and then use that.

Now my problem is clean up.. I want to delete the file on close, but get access denied errors (i assume because it's in use even as the form closes?)

To delete the font file, you may need to start an independent process or script that waits a few seconds and then tries to delete the file (checking for an error and retrying until successful), then close the process that was using the font.