Installing fonts

[DigiRev]

To install fonts on Windows XP, you can simply copy the TTF files over to the %WinDir%\Fonts\ folder. Will this work on other versions of Windows? Even Vista?

I'm using a font that isn't available on all Windows versions, and in Sub Main() I'm wanting to install the fonts before the application loads.

Will this work?

I would do it using an installer, but unfortunately, that isn't an option.

[LaVolpe]

If I remember correctly after installing the font, you want to broadcast to all windows that the font is available. Ahh, that triggered a old man's brain... see if this works. Here's another one. Neither tested on Vista by me.

If you don't have a response tomorrow evening, I have access to all O/S from Win95 and up. I can run a test for you on the O/S you are interested in. If so, upload a quick sample project with the font (as file or resource as your project requires it).

[DigiRev]

If I remember correctly after installing the font, you want to broadcast to all windows that the font is available. Ahh, that triggered a old man's brain... see if this works. Here's another one. Neither tested on Vista by me.

If you don't have a response tomorrow evening, I have access to all O/S from Win95 and up. I can run a test for you on the O/S you are interested in. If so, upload a quick sample project with the font (as file or resource as your project requires it).

Thanks a bunch LaVolpe.

I'll check out the links and have a sample posted up. It might a little over an hour though as I have to go somewhere in a few minutes.

[LaVolpe]

DigiRev, if you can get it to me within 20 minutes, I can test it. Otherwise as I mentioned in my post, it will have to wait til I get home from work tomorrow evening. Of course someone else with similar O/S configs may be able to test it for you sooner.

[DigiRev]

DigiRev, if you can get it to me within 20 minutes, I can test it. Otherwise as I mentioned in my post, it will have to wait til I get home from work tomorrow evening. Of course someone else with similar O/S configs may be able to test it for you sooner.

Really wish I could, but I gotta leave in just a few minutes.

Tomorrow will be fine, though. Not in a huge hurry.

Thanks again.

[LaVolpe]

One more thing (not positive about Vista), I do recall, been quite a while, that there is a relatively easy way to just use the font for your app. In that case, you'd only need the path to the font, i.e., app/path maybe. I don't know if you want the font available to the entire system or not.

Edited: http://allapi.mentalis.org/apilist/A...Resource.shtml