How to get font info

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Elmo Watson

I've got the following code that iterates the built-in fonts, and adds them
to a combobox:

Dim ff As FontFamily

For Each ff In System.Drawing.FontFamily.Families

cboFonts.Items.Add(ff.Name)

Next



I've also tried it using:

Dim installedFonts As InstalledFontCollection = New
InstalledFontCollection()

For Each family In installedFonts.Families





What I need to do is get the Font 'information', based on the selected Item
in that combobox.



What I mean by information, is the information that is at the top of the
page/form, when you double-click on any font -

TypeFace name, file size, version, actual file name, opentype or truetype,
copyright info, etc



Can anyone help me/direct me to a code sample, etc, on this?
 
Hi Elmo,

I don't think you can find this information using .Net Framework. A FontFamily is exactly that a, collection of fonts. If you look in the %windir%/Fonts folder you will find most fonts have up to four different files. If you have a font, which of the files do you mean when you want to display the file size (PS make sure you have not Hide Variations set in the View menu)?

I fear you may need to read all the files in %windir%/Fonts and manually find out which file(s) you need, given the FontFamily name and style.

A good starting point would be http://www.wotsit.org/

Not many relevant links found on TTF, but you will at least find a link to the specifications for TTF. Google around for code reading the TTF header which should contain the copyright information etc.
 
Well then, maybe I'm going about it the wrong way - let's consider fonts
themselves
How would you add the fonts, individually, to the combobox - - then, is
there a way to get this info from the font file?
 
Well then, maybe I'm going about it the wrong way - let's consider fonts
themselves
How would you add the fonts, individually, to the combobox - - then, is
there a way to get this info from the font file?
Click to expand...

This works for me:

private void LoadFontData()
{
int intCount;
ToolStripMenuItem tsmnuItem;

// Font Names
tsbtnFontName.DropDownItems.Clear();

FontFamily[] sysFonts = FontFamily.Families;
for (intCount = 0; intCount <= sysFonts.GetUpperBound(0); intCount++)
{
tsmnuItem = new ToolStripMenuItem(sysFonts[intCount].Name, null,
tsbtnFontName_DropDownItemClicked);
tsbtnFontName.DropDownItems.Add(tsmnuItem);
}
}

Just use a Combo instead of ToolStripMenu.
 
Well, if the goal is to display available fonts in a ComboBox, this should do

comboBox1.DataSource = FontFamily.Families;
comboBox1.DisplayMember = "Name";

From the selected FontFamily you can create a Font object.


Well then, maybe I'm going about it the wrong way - let's consider fonts
themselves
How would you add the fonts, individually, to the combobox - - then, is
there a way to get this info from the font file?
Click to expand...
 
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