I am trying to make a GUI like a iPad/iPhone, so to be able to make it look good, of course you need to use a font like Apple. I have downloaded it - MyriadPro-Semibold and put it in the control panel font's folder, but when selecting a font, it is not there. I found this online:
Label1.Font = Resources.GetFont(Resources.FontResources.MyriadPro-Semibold)
I suspect it is C (minus the ";" at the end of the line), but I don't know. Should I have to put the font in the resources or what?
Thanks in advance.
Myriad Pro is an OpenType font. Only WPF supports such fonts, Winforms requires a TrueType font.
Just one hint, when you copy Apple fonts then be sure to not be successful. Apple has a lot of lawyers and isn't afraid to use them. Especially when the font is used for their corporate logo.
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I've used both TTF and OTF custom fonts many times in UWP apps without issue, but in this case, I have an OTF font that will not work in my app.
I have a test app that has one page with only the text on it, like this:
<TextBlock Text="Testing" FontFamily="ms-appx:///Assets/Fonts/customfont.otf#font name" FontSize="30"/>
The font file is located at that location in my project and the #fontname is the same one that shows in Windows Font Viewer.
I've tried converting the OTF to TTF, but it didn't change anything.
I've installed the OTF font on my Windows System and I can use the font in MS Word and other programs and it looks correct.
This is a professional font provided by a company that sells high quality fonts.
I've run out of trouble shooting tactics on this. Anything else I should try?
What font are you using? Sometimes the #Font Name does not equal what is seen in the Windows Font Viewer. I have a database of the values that I use with my app Font Lounge. I'll try looking up the value.
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Just saw that you figured it out - font weight is not part of the #Font Name as the #Font Name refers to the family only.
I'm using a CC-BY FontAwesome typeface for icons on my Twitter Bootstrap-driven website. Now I want to use it in an image editor for a prototype of another website. But it does not work. I cannot use its webfont-TTF with my image editing application. How can I convert it to a normal font?
Please dont give me links to free-/shareware closed-source utilites. I want to know, why does this happening and implement my own script which would "fix" this font.
FontAwesome should work out of the box. Heres how to use it:
Download FontAwesome. Then open fonts/FontAwesome.otf and install it (either with fontbook on osx or by adding it to your fonts folder on windows).
Use the Cheatsheet to actually use specific icons. Find the icon you want there, select the icon and copy it.
Switch to your image editor, create a text item, set the font to FontAwesome, and paste the symbol you copied.
I assume you are talking about http://fontawesome.io/ .
If so there is nothing wrong with the TTF version of this font and no reason to convert it. I have tested the font on linux by dropping the .ttf file in /usr/share/fonts/ and it is useable in LibreOffice, Gimp and Terminal.
You problem is almost certainly one of:
The process you used to install the font
You aren't entering the correct Unicode characters or your image editor doesn't support Unicode.
However you failed to provide enough details. You haven't even defined what you mean by "it does not work". Please update your question with details like the process you used, a link to the actual font you downloaded and the operating system and image editor you're using.
In case you're still looking for a solution: the easy way is to convert the included SVG font to usable TrueType or OpenType, using e.g. FontForge or an online service.
AFAIK SVG fonts have no DRM flags, unlike TrueType.
okay. according to #fontface, OpenType PS does NOT have subpixel rendering when converted and used on Windows platforms. Crap Factor = 9. my question is, since it's cakey-pants to convert OpenType PS to OpenType TT, what happens to subpixel rendering? i've tried using some online converters and see ZERO difference: fonts look like crap.
so the question is HOW can i convert an OpenType PS file to an OpenType TT file WITH subpixel rendering coming along for the ride?
because once i have an OpenType TT file, i can get to EOT easily.
thanks!
WR!
okay. here's what i've figured out and it works. but, i can't verify that it'll work with the freeware FontStudio, but it should. i just didn't feel like installing cygwin to verify that it would for sure... meh.
i use FontLab Studio, but any font authoring tool should do the job. Simply open the PS version of the font. convert the PS paths to TT paths. this may take a minute or two, depending on font complexity. Once it's complete, generate a new TrueType font. convert this to EOT and you're away to the races.
TWO important notes:
1) if you are using an IDE like Dreamweaver or Aptana, the preview will NOT show the new subpixel rendering you just enabled. but it does show up where it matters: in the browser.
2) Mac users may not see this problem and be aware of it because the Mac type engine handles OpenType PS files differently. hopefully this will help them out.
bottom line, if you're going to be converting to EOT, start with a TrueType font. as great as OpenType PS is for layout & print, it explodes the brain when used for web layout.
hope this is useful to the community.
WR!
I am having problems creating PDF documents with fully embedded True Type fonts. I am printing from MS Word (and Indesign) to the Adobe 9.0 print driver. I can get .otf fonts to embed with no problem, but .ttf files will not embed. Is it possible to fully (not subset) embed these fonts? I am specifically having problems using WingDings. With other fonts, I have been able to find and purchase .otf versions and use those, but it does not appear that wingdings is available in this format and I do not know of another way to fully embed bullets (both sqaure and round).
The license for WingDings doesn't appear to allow you to fully embed them -- or too look at it another way, Acrobat doesn't appear to believe that it can fully embed them (and so subsets them instead). I'm not a copyright lawyer, so I'm not sure precisely what's allowed here, but here's some info that might help.
Install the font properties extension from Microsoft. This will give you much more information on the fonts properties. Once it's installed right-click on a WingDings font and and click on the 'Embedding' tab. You'll see this message:
"Embeddability for this font: Editable embedding allowed.
Editable embedding allowed: fonts may be embedded in documents, but must only be installed
temporarily on the remote system."
Then read this article from Adobe about Embedding Permissions. And this forum discussion might be of some use too.
I tried print a Word document which included WingDings to the Adobe PDF printer driver (Acrobat 8) and not matter which settings I tried, I was unable to get it to fully embed the font.
My guess is that Adobe interpret "Editable embedding allowed" to mean that you can only embed characters for the font which were included in the original document (i.e. embedded subset) and they are also the only ones which you can edit in the PDF.
I would try adding an additional page to the document that included every character in the font. Then use a different (non-Adobe) tool to delete that page. I don't have Windows so I can't tell you specifically how to do it. I can only tell you that I've used these kinds of tricks on other systems.
Well basically I'm finishing school in mid December so I'm just brushing up my resume and I'm wondering if there's a way to use custom fonts (in this case Calibri and Cambria) in a PDF file and make them render correctly on all computers.
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: I'm using MS Word 2007, but am open to suggestions
PDFs don't store text and fonts like other documents, they actually convert the font to vectors, that way no matter what font you use, the document displays exactly as expected. This is why searching for text inside the PDF is such a problem for 3rd party PDF Readers and why even Adobe themselves use to distribute 2 versions of Acrobat (one with text search, one without).
Another thing to keep in mind is, PDF isn't pixel exact, it's ratio exact. PDF readers generally do not use a 100% zoom level, instead most people read them at "fit to screen" or "fit to page". I point this out because I'm guessing the reason you are trying to use those new Vista/Office 2007 fonts is because of their LCD subpixel support (improves readability on LCD screens). This feature will not translate into the PDF, since the letter becomes a vector, subpixel information is lost, and even if it wasn't, becomes useless because the vector will be sized to something other than you intended at view time.
The PDF format is capable of embedding fonts, if the font has been marked embeddable by its creator. You'll have to check the software that's creating your PDF to see if it has the capability and how to enable it.
theoretically speaking, on technical side, embedding/not embedding ability, regarding the fonts, is settled with a special flag in font file (ttf or opentype or type1)
you can view this special embedding flag with any font editor program (I recommend
FontCreator (by High-logic)
http://www.high-logic.com/font-editor/fontcreator.html
with a free trial fully operative and without limitations
you can also change embedding/not embedding flag, but legally speaking, for the 99% of fonts commercially distributed, this breaks the license of font