For more information, see Packaging Fonts with Applications.TrueType is a digital font technology designed by Apple Computer, and now used by both Apple and Microsoft in their operating systems. Alternatively, you can add fonts to your application as project resource items that are embedded within the application's assembly files. You can add fonts to your application as project content items that are not embedded as resources within an assembly. There are two ways that you can use fonts in your application. The following screenshot shows the Lindsey font file, Linds.ttf.
You can display a representative set of characters in several font sizes by doubling-clicking the font file. Once these fonts are on your computer, they are accessible to all applications that reference default Windows fonts. Use the Fonts control panel to install the fonts. You have the option of installing the sample OpenType fonts to the default Windows Fonts directory, \WINDOWS\Fonts. To license extended or custom versions of the sample fonts, see Ascender Corporation's Web site.Īs a developer it is your responsibility to ensure that you have the required license rights for any font you embed within an application or otherwise redistribute. Ascender is a provider of advanced font products. The sample fonts are supplied under license from Ascender Corporation. The following illustration shows what the sample OpenType fonts look like. The following table lists the names of the sample OpenType fonts.
These fonts implement only a subset of the total features defined by the OpenType format. The Windows SDK provides a set of sample OpenType fonts that you can use in creating Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications. The sample fonts support extended OpenType features that can be used by Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications. This topic provides an overview of the sample OpenType fonts that are distributed with the Windows SDK.
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