Is there any way to include font to a clickOnce installation of a winforms application in visual studio. The program that we are developing requires a font that is not installed in windows by default.
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You can load the font into a res file and have it loaded without being installed to the computer. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms753303.aspx and http://www.bobpowell.net/embedfonts.htm
Mitch
2010-01-23 22:28:00
Unfortunately that won't help since we need to actually install the font on the computer.
Jargo
2010-01-24 07:39:24
then perhaps you can p/invoke the function add font resource to install it if your program finds it missing. see http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/gdi32.AddFontResource
Mitch
2010-01-24 20:51:45
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Don't think you can do it with ClickOnce, because of its limitations. You still can make a setup project with special font folder in it and custom written simple updater(a-la custom simple clickonce) if you want updates for example..
nihi_l_ist
2010-09-13 07:43:56
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Can you create a setup & deployment project to install the font, and deploy it as a prerequisite to the ClickOnce application? You can turn it into a custom prerequisite by using the Bootstrapper Manifest Generator to create the prerequisite package, copy into the VS packages folder, and it will show up in Visual Studio as a prerequisite.
RobinDotNet
2010-09-25 00:06:49