I am making a program that will be using a specific font that most people will not have on their computers.  Is there a way that I can embed that font into program file?  I would like not to install the font onto each persons computer.  If there is a way please let me know.  Thanks in advance.

Ted

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Ted Moe
I wish I was real good at this stuff!

As I know, you must install font that your program is using in order windows to 'recognize' it. If u dont know how to do it using VB, post again and I will send u the code.

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hehehe.... her i come!  

then for the labels, just use pictures of the labels in the font you want and use pictures instead. =)

otherwise, you'd have to install them in each pc using your program.

making them gif files are just tedious.. any reason why you don't want to share it?

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Thanks guys for all the help.  I did decide that I would go with image files even though that is getting boring doing everything.  It isn't that I don't want to share the font it is that the computers that it would be going on are customers of the ISP I work for and making it as easy as possible with out confusing them is the best way to go.  

Thanks again for the help.

Ted

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Ted Moe
I wish I was real good at this stuff!

Goran, please show me the VB code to install a font  thanks

Basically, you would need to copy fonts you want to install to Fonts folder, which is located in %Windows% directory. Then you will use this API's (first one is for registering and 2nd one for unregistering)

Private Declare Function AddFontResource Lib "gdi32" Alias "AddFontResourceA" (ByVal lpFileName As String) As Long Private Declare Function RemoveFontResource Lib "gdi32" Alias "RemoveFontResourceA" (ByVal lpFileName As String) As Long ' example to register font AddFontResource "fontname.ttf"

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Thanks for your prompt reply. I read somewhere that addfontresource only adds the font temporarily, until the computer is restarted - do you know if this is correct?

It worked fine with me.... Again, it shouldnt be hard to check that statement, run AddFontResource, restart the PC, and try to use them again.

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Just to add, I used AddFontResource when I was creating installation with Package And Deployment Wizard, sine there was no other way I knew of to install fonts. Now I use Visual Studio Installer, and iy does the job for you with installing fonts, so you dont need to worry about it. My bet is that VSI uses AddFontResource too.

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