Question

I have a VB.NET Windows Forms project that at one point paints text directly to onto the form at runtime. Before I paint with the font though, I want to make sure that the font and font-size exists on the user’s machine. If they don’t, I’ll try a few other similar fonts, eventually defaulting with Arial or something.

What’s the best way to test and validate a font on a user’s computer?

Answer 1

From an MSDN article titled ‘How To: Enumerate Installed Fonts’, I found this code:

   InstalledFontCollection installedFontCollection = new InstalledFontCollection();  // Get the array of FontFamily objects. FontFamily[] fontFamilies = installedFontCollection.Families;