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bvanderw
bvanderw

Reputation: 1063

Fonts missing in WinForms.FontDialog

When I display an instance of WinForms.FontDialog (C#, .NET 2.0), I am missing some fonts that I expect to be there (e.g. Courier, Fixedsys, MS Sans Serif). Also, a customer is complaining that Adobe fonts he has installed are also not showing up in the list.

How can I get these fonts to display in this dialog?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2993

Answers (1)

Hans Passant
Hans Passant

Reputation: 942207

FontDialog was designed to only show TrueType fonts to stay compatible with GDI+. Getting it to show the device fonts takes a bit of Reflection hacking:

using System.Reflection;

...

FontDialog fontDialog1 = new FontDialog();

MethodInfo mi = typeof(FontDialog).GetMethod("SetOption", 
    BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
        mi.Invoke(fontDialog1, new object[] { 0x40000, false });
fontDialog1.ShowDialog();

I don't know whether this also enables Adobe's OpenType fonts, I don't have any. Let us know.

Upvotes: 6

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