font list problem

[Ciary]

hi all,

i have a problem with a webservice written in VB.NET. my intensions are to display a fontlist in a website. since the code i found only works in IE (look in HTML forum for the script) i was thinking of a webservice (since i already worked with this. look in PHP forum for more details).
while coding i got this code:

    Public Function getFonts() As String Implements IService1.getFonts
        Dim strFont As String = ""
        Dim fonts As New InstalledFontCollection
        Dim families() As FontFamily = fonts.Families()
        Dim i As Integer = 0
 
        For Each nfont As FontFamily In families
            i = i + 1
            strFont &= i.ToString & ") " & nfont.Name & vbNewLine
        Next nfont
 
        Return strFont
    End Function
 

problem is: my IE page returns 189 fonts and my webservice only shows 163. does anyone know where my other 26 fonts go? (i'm currently working on the server so it should be the same amount.)

[MrMancunian]

Perhaps there are some fonts that belong to the same family? Did you check which fonts don't show and what the relation between those fonts are?

Steven

[Ciary]

@MrMancunian
i thought that too, at first. but when i listed fonts instead of families i get the same amount. the only relationship i can find between the fonts is that they dont show in ms office either. maybe microsoft uses the same technique.

[MrMancunian]

This might be a long shot, but MS Word only shows the fonts that the current default printer supports. Perhaps this is something to look into...

Steven

[Ciary]

i guess vb.net also gets the printer fonts :) i just found 4 more fonts after restarting my server. fonts i just installed and already saw in my IE page (with a code in which i'm doing the same but it only works in IE)

[Ciary]

i just found the reason why it doesn't find a few fonts. vb.net will only read the .ttf fonts. while some fonts are stored in .fon files. i dont know how to solve this though. also, vb.net will only find all fonts if you restarted your system when you installed a new font, although you can already use it in other windows apps.

[manhit]

thanks guys

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