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jakewilliamson

Post subject: how to access the light cut of a font?

Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 1:05 pm

Joined: Mon Nov 04, 2013 12:58 pm
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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

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Thomas Hoevel

Post subject: Re: how to access the light cut of a font?

Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 2:07 pm

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Joined: Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:16 am
Posts: 3100
Location: Cologne, Germany

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.

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jakewilliamson

Post subject: Re: how to access the light cut of a font?

Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 4:27 pm

Joined: Mon Nov 04, 2013 12:58 pm
Posts: 8

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!

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jakewilliamson

Post subject: Re: how to access the light cut of a font?

Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 12:53 pm

Joined: Mon Nov 04, 2013 12:58 pm
Posts: 8

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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