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how to access the light cut of a font?
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Author:  jakewilliamson [ Mon Nov 04, 2013 1:05 pm ]
Post subject:  how to access the light cut of a font?
hello,

getting on well with pdfsharp but have hit a problem - how do i access the light cut of a font?!

Code:
var fontMiso30 = new XFont("miso", 30, XFontStyle.Regular);


the 'XFontStyle' enum only has regular, bold, italic, bolditalic, underline and strikeout...

i've got miso.ttf, miso-bold.ttf and miso-light.ttf insatlled on the machine - i can hit regular and bold, but no light!

any clues? my thinking is i need to get into the guts of the code, add light as an option in the 'XFontStyle' enum, update any related code?

cheers,

jake
Author:  Thomas Hoevel [ Mon Nov 04, 2013 2:07 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: how to access the light cut of a font?
Hi!

I tried the three fonts with WordPad and MS Word.
WordPad doesn't show the light version at all.
With MS Word I see all three version, but I can use only 2 of them.

Word can't use them, therefore I'm afraid it won't be simple to make PDFsharp use them. Changing the enum is less than the tip of the ice cube.
Author:  jakewilliamson [ Wed Nov 06, 2013 4:27 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: how to access the light cut of a font?
interesting... just tried and got the same issue... seems windows just cant access that cut of the font. weird.

i'll keep digging and post back if i find an answer.

thanks for the reply!
Author:  jakewilliamson [ Mon Nov 11, 2013 12:53 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: how to access the light cut of a font?
ok, did some more digging - the solution was to add a 'PrivateFontCollection'.

Code:
var globalFontCollection = XPrivateFontCollection.Global;
var uri = new Uri("file:///C:/pathToYourFont/miso.ttf");
const string name = "./#Miso Light";
globalFontCollection.Add(uri, name);


this allows me to access the light cut of the font using this for PdfSharp using a DrawString:

Code:
new XFont("Miso Light", 12, XFontStyle.Regular);


and this for MigraDoc:

Code:
var doc = new Document();
var sec = doc.AddSection();
var para = sec.AddParagraph();
para.Format.Alignment = ParagraphAlignment.Right;
para.Format.Font.Name = "Miso Light";
para.Format.Font.Size = 11;
para.Format.Font.Color = MigraDoc.DocumentObjectModel.Colors.DarkGray;


hope this helps someone out there ;)

cheers,

jake
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