Symbols on the fly

[Tim Marsden]

HI,

Is there any way of creating symbols on the fly and us then as if they where
normal characters. For example I would like to create a Logo character,
which I can use as if it was a normal character with a character ID.

I would like to create them on the fly with VB.Net because I want to use the
character as a security marker, only produced using my code.

Any thoughts?
Tim

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

Do you mean as in a font glyph? Technically yes but I bet you don't want to
know how ;-) Writing out a TTF file or writing it into memory and putting it
into a PrivateFontCollection is fiesable but so darn compley it's not even
worth thinking about unless you want to do about 3 months of coding first.

Why not just create a bitmap and draw it at the place for your logo?
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"Tim Marsden" <tm***@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
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HI,

Is there any way of creating symbols on the fly and us then as if they
where normal characters. For example I would like to create a Logo
character, which I can use as if it was a normal character with a
character ID.

I would like to create them on the fly with VB.Net because I want to use
the character as a security marker, only produced using my code.

Any thoughts?
Tim

[Tim Marsden]

Hi Thanks for the reply,

I need to write the character out in a text document, so bitmap cannot be
used. I cannot use GDI or similar. Do you know of any articles, I am not shy
of coding.

Tim
"Bob Powell [MVP]" <bob@_spamkiller_bobpowell.net> wrote in message
news:uH*************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

Do you mean as in a font glyph? Technically yes but I bet you don't want
to know how ;-) Writing out a TTF file or writing it into memory and
putting it into a PrivateFontCollection is fiesable but so darn compley
it's not even worth thinking about unless you want to do about 3 months of
coding first.

Why not just create a bitmap and draw it at the place for your logo?
--
Bob Powell [MVP]
Visual C#, System.Drawing

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http://www.bobpowell.net/tipstricks.htm

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"Tim Marsden" <tm***@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
news:el**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

HI,

Is there any way of creating symbols on the fly and us then as if they
where normal characters. For example I would like to create a Logo
character, which I can use as if it was a normal character with a
character ID.

I would like to create them on the fly with VB.Net because I want to use
the character as a security marker, only produced using my code.

Any thoughts?
Tim

[Peter Huang [MSFT]]

Hi Tim,

I reviewed the thread and find that there is a similar issue in the
newsgroup below. It seems that you have created the font and you want to
know how to install a font. Now a community has replied to you, you may go
and take a look.

Subject: Install Font
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb

If I have any misunderstanding, please feel free to let me know.
Also if you have related question about the issue in the post above, you
may try to post in that thread too.

Thanks!

Best regards,

Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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