Loading a font directly from a file in C#

Question

Is there a way to do something like this?

FontFamily fontFamily = new FontFamily(\"C:/Projects/MyProj/free3of9.ttf\");

I\'ve tried a variety of

Answer 1

This example shows how to add font from byte array - if font is stored in resources. It allows to add font from file too. Following code I am using on winforms:

It is little tricky, for loading TTF font from file you need to do this:

private PrivateFontCollection _privateFontCollection = new PrivateFontCollection();

public FontFamily GetFontFamilyByName(string name)
{
    return _privateFontCollection.Families.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Name == name);
}

public void AddFont(string fullFileName)
{
    AddFont(File.ReadAllBytes(fullFileName));
}   

public void AddFont(byte[] fontBytes)
{
    var handle = GCHandle.Alloc(fontBytes, GCHandleType.Pinned);
    IntPtr pointer = handle.AddrOfPinnedObject();
    try
    {
        _privateFontCollection.AddMemoryFont(pointer, fontBytes.Length);
    }
    finally
    {
        handle.Free();
    }
}

Answer 2

This piece of code works for me (WPF):

FontFamily fontFamily = new FontFamily(@"C:\#FONTNAME")

In your example, it would be:

FontFamily fontFamily = new FontFamily(@"C:\Projects\MyProj\#free3of9");

The font name without the file extension, and keep the '#' symbol.