How do I embed and then use a font inside a WPF web application?

Hi

I'd like to embed a barcode font,
http://www.squaregear.net/fonts/free3of9.shtml

and then use it inside my application.

I'm marking the font as a resource then I try to use it as follows

<Glyphs x:Name="BarCodeInfo" UnicodeString="*1223123*"
FontUri="pack://application:,,,/Images\FREE3OF9.TTF"
FontRenderingEmSize="12"/>


Needless to say that the above doesn't seem to product much results...

Please help me out, there doesn't seem to be many examples of this on
the web.

Phil

Hi Philippe,
Here's a link to the SDK article which describes how to do this:
http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/library/

I noticed you used Glyphs, this is a low level API, would TextBlock work
better for your scenario?

Thanks,
Chris

"Philippe Lavoie" wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'd like to embed a barcode font,
> http://www.squaregear.net/fonts/free3of9.shtml
>
> and then use it inside my application.
>
> I'm marking the font as a resource then I try to use it as follows
>
> <Glyphs x:Name="BarCodeInfo" UnicodeString="*1223123*"
> FontUri="pack://application:,,,/Images\FREE3OF9.TTF"
> FontRenderingEmSize="12"/>
>
>
> Needless to say that the above doesn't seem to product much results...
>
> Please help me out, there doesn't seem to be many examples of this on
> the web.
>
> Phil
>

I think you truncated the link

And I do not care about Glyphs that much. However, TextBlock only had a
'Font-Family' property, which isn't an URI. I assumed, I couldn't use
one embedded inside the application.

Phil

Chris Han [MSFT] wrote:
> Hi Philippe,
> Here's a link to the SDK article which describes how to do this:
> http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/library/
>
> I noticed you used Glyphs, this is a low level API, would TextBlock work
> better for your scenario?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> "Philippe Lavoie" wrote:
>
>
>>Hi
>>
>>I'd like to embed a barcode font,
>>http://www.squaregear.net/fonts/free3of9.shtml
>>
>>and then use it inside my application.
>>
>>I'm marking the font as a resource then I try to use it as follows
>>
>><Glyphs x:Name="BarCodeInfo" UnicodeString="*1223123*"
>>FontUri="pack://application:,,,/Images\FREE3OF9.TTF"
>>FontRenderingEmSize="12"/>
>>
>>
>>Needless to say that the above doesn't seem to product much results...
>>
>>Please help me out, there doesn't seem to be many examples of this on
>>the web.
>>
>>Phil
>>

Yes you can actually use relative uris with FontFamily, but you have to
specify a '#' to indicate where the uri ends and where the font family begins:
FontFamily="/Fonts/#Cool Font"

Sorry for truncating...
http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com...4460865286.asp

That should work if not it's under
WPF-->Documents-->Typography-->Fonts-->Packaging Fonts

hope that helps philippe,
Chris

"Philippe Lavoie" wrote:

> I think you truncated the link
>
> And I do not care about Glyphs that much. However, TextBlock only had a
> 'Font-Family' property, which isn't an URI. I assumed, I couldn't use
> one embedded inside the application.
>
> Phil
>
> Chris Han [MSFT] wrote:
> > Hi Philippe,
> > Here's a link to the SDK article which describes how to do this:
> > http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/library/
> >
> > I noticed you used Glyphs, this is a low level API, would TextBlock work
> > better for your scenario?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> >
> > "Philippe Lavoie" wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi
> >>
> >>I'd like to embed a barcode font,
> >>http://www.squaregear.net/fonts/free3of9.shtml
> >>
> >>and then use it inside my application.
> >>
> >>I'm marking the font as a resource then I try to use it as follows
> >>
> >><Glyphs x:Name="BarCodeInfo" UnicodeString="*1223123*"
> >>FontUri="pack://application:,,,/Images\FREE3OF9.TTF"
> >>FontRenderingEmSize="12"/>
> >>
> >>
> >>Needless to say that the above doesn't seem to product much results...
> >>
> >>Please help me out, there doesn't seem to be many examples of this on
> >>the web.
> >>
> >>Phil
> >>
>