List of activated fonts does not include shortcut activations

[jusovsky]

Our font management tool, Suitcase, activates fonts dynamically by creating shortcuts in the Windows font folder. Using System.Drawing.Text.InstalledFontCollection to get the list of font families from the system yields only the fonts whose files are physically in the system font folder- not the shortcuts. None of our applications have any problems using the fonts activated by shortcuts. Can anyone recommend another way to retrieve the complete list of fonts? Thanks for any suggestions

Josh Usovsk
Code
System.Drawing.Text.InstalledFontCollection installedFonts = new System.Drawing.Text.InstalledFontCollection()
System.Drawing.FontFamily[] fams = installedFonts .Families;

[Tian Min Huang]

Hello Josh,

Thanks for your post. I noticed that you cross post this issue in another
group: microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms where one of my
colleagues replied. For your convenience, now I paste his reply to this
thread:

"
Hi Josh,

I'm not sure what do you mean activates fonts by creating shortcuts in font
folder.
Do you mean create a lnk file in the \windows\fonts ?
I'm not sure if windows supports this usage, because the lnk file can't be
shown in the explorer when browsing the font folder. could you give me a
detail steps to Create a Font object by the link file, so I can confirm if
it is a supported featue and then ask for why it is not included in the
InstalledFontCollection.

Another thought is, since you mean you need activates fonts dynamically by
creating a link in the font folder, I guess you only want to use this font
in your application and it should not be installed into the system font
folder. Then have you considered using the PrivateFontCollection class
under the same namespace? The PrivateFontCollection class allows
applications to install a private version of an existing font without the
need to replace the system version of the font.

For more information on the PrivatFontCollection you may refer to
<PrivateFontCollection Class>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...us/cpref/html/
frlrfsystemdrawingtextprivatefontcollectionclassto pic.asp

Thanks!
Best regards,

Ying-Shen Yu [MSFT]
Microsoft community Support
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Have a nice day!

Regards,

HuangTM
Microsoft Online Partner Support
MCSE/MCSD

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