WINDOWS PHONE 7 TEXT STYLES INSTALL
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This generated a new TTF which worked perfectly in my Windows Phone 8 application.

I simply opened my TTF file, switched to the Menu tab, gave it a new name and clicked Export. Interestingly it’s also a Java application (I can’t recall the last time I used a Java application and now to have two in a day….). I found a GUI tool called BirdFont ( ) which can be used to edit TTF files. A couple of the tools I tried for attempt 1 indicated that they could access or read one of the tables in the TTF file – this made me wonder whether there was something slightly screwy in the file which was causing Windows Phone not to handle the file correctly.

WINDOWS PHONE 7 TEXT STYLES INSTALL

Whilst it appears that Windows can open my rogue font and install it correctly, the font did originate from a Mac. I’ve also tried adjusting my rogue font (default value was 0 which should afaik allow embedding anyhow) but couldn’t get it to render. I’ve tried setting this attribute to all sorts of different values and it appears that Visual Studio, Blend and Windows Phone completely ignores them (ie with the Colonna font I couldn’t get it to not show the font). You’ll notice that the Colonna MT has been set to 8 which means it can be embedded. Hover over the text box and you’ll see the tooltip that indicates possible values. – Select the OS/2 tab and look for the “Legal rights for embedding” field.

WINDOWS PHONE 7 TEXT STYLES ZIP

Ok, now we’re ready to run TTFEdit: Open a command prompt, navigate to the directory where you extracted TTFEdit (it comes as a zip file, so don’t forget to unblock it before extracting it), and execute “Run.cmd” – this will launch the UI: I then had to add c:Program Files (x86)Javajre7bin to my path so it was accessible from my command prompt: which meant I needed to install the JRE… ummm, where do I get that again, oh, right, of course:ĭo you think installing this is enough… no, because it doesn’t add itself to the path. What astounded me was that this was a Java application…. There are a couple of rudimentary tools out there that will allow you to tweak this (and yes, I have permissions from the font designer to do this!). Apparently, which I didn’t realise there is a flag in the TTF file which indicates whether the font can be embedded or not. Unfortunately when I upgraded my application to Windows Phone 8 the font stopped rendering – the TextBlock elements would revert to using the default font.Īttempt 1: Adjusting legal rights for embeddingĪfter talking with a few people about what the cause of the issue could be (ie not following options 1 or 2 above) it was suggested (thanks Vaughan from Bitrave) that it was font licensing issue. What’s interesting is that the syntax for using this font in the application is slightly differentīoth of the options presented in the previous section worked brilliant for my font in a Windows Phone 7 project. Now from the FontFamily dropdown you can select the font and you’ll notice that it has an icon next to it indicating that the Font has been added to the project.Īn alternative is to select the font and then check the “Embed” checkbox in the Text group: You will see that this font has been added to a Fonts folder in the Projects window: Select the font that you want to embed in your application, in this case Bradley Hand ITC, and click OK From the FontFamily dropdown, click on the Font Manager button: In the Properties window locate the Text property group (you can type “font” in the search box to reduce the list of properties). Switch to Blend (if you’re not already designing your application in Blend then you should be!) and select the TextBlock where you want to use the custom font. This can be found by opening the TTF file from Windows Explorer using the default Windows Font Viewer:Īn alternative is to get Blend to do the hard work for you.

If you put the TTF file in a folder or in a different assembly you’ll need to adjust the path accordingly. Before the # is the path to the TTF file. It’s worth breaking the FontFamily attribute value into its parts.

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