WPF - copy/paste selection with custom font family

Question

I have a custom font family embedded in my WPF application which I can reference by specifying a base URI and font family name.

new FontFamily(new Uri("pack://application:,,,/Fonts/"), "./#My Custom Font Family");

However, when I copy a selection which uses this font the xaml on the clipboard resembles the following

<Run Text="Foo" FontFamily="./#My Custom Font Family" />

When I paste into the same RichTextBox I lose the font as it falls back to the system default because -

When a FontFamily is specified as an attribute in markup, the base URI value is always implied—its value is the URI of the XAML page. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.media.fontfamily.aspx

and my xaml page is not located in the same directory as the custom font family.

Any ideas for a workaround?

Answer 1

I ended up working around this by changing the way the font family was initialized.

new FontFamily(new Uri("pack://application:,,,/Fonts/"), "./#My Custom Font Family");

became

new FontFamily(new Uri("pack://application:,,,"), "MyAssemblyName;Component/Fonts/#My Custom Font Family");

when serialized to the clipboard (XAML)

<Run Text="Foo" FontFamily="Component/Fonts/#My Custom Font Family" />

and the end result - my custom font is preserved when copy/pasted within the rich text box.