How to find the physical path of a font...?

**Insaneogram** · Mar 4th, 2007, 09:20 PM

I'm writing an app that basically sychronises PDAs with the overall system, so I need to be able to send fonts down to the PDAs if someone changes a setting.

This is not going to be a problem at all, provided I can find the actualy location (path) of the font on the server machine without hard-coding in
"c:\windows\fonts".

Any ideas?

**RobDog888** · Mar 4th, 2007, 10:00 PM

Just one way...

vb Code:

MessageBox.Show(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("WINDIR").ToString & "\Fonts")

**Insaneogram** · Mar 4th, 2007, 10:07 PM

That assumes that the fonts directory is called "Fonts" (which is ok I guess), but I still wouldn't know the extension of the font or the font file name. Courier, for example, is "COUR.TTF"

**RobDog888** · Mar 4th, 2007, 10:12 PM

Well the other thing is that you can not just copy and paste a Font resource as it should be installed but if not I would assume it will find and use it without error if its in the proper folder.

Are you trying to synch fonts or a document that uses a particular font or ???

**Insaneogram** · Mar 4th, 2007, 10:16 PM

Trying to synch an application that may be used in different languages and as such may require special fonts

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