Problem with non-existent font

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David Thielen - 27 Sep 2007 21:43 GMT

Hi;

When a user gives us a font not installed on the system (from a Word
document created on another system that does have the font) we get:

System.Drawing.Font fnt = new System.Drawing.Font("'Berlin Sans FB Demi",
11.0, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Regular, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Point);

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Font 'Berlin Sans FB Demi' does not
support
style 'Regular'.
at System.Drawing.Font.CreateNativeFont()
at System.Drawing.Font.Initialize(FontFamily family, Single emSize,
FontStyle style, GraphicsUnit unit, Byte gdiCharSet, Boolean gdiVerticalFont)
at System.Drawing.Font.<init>(String familyName, Single emSize, FontStyle
style, GraphicsUnit unit)

How should we handle this? We need to get font metrics that are at least
close - we can't throw an exception and give up.

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Walter Wang [MSFT] - 28 Sep 2007 05:55 GMT

Hi Dave,

In your other post about CultureInfo, I've just made a reply and posted
some C++ code to check if a font is installed.

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Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
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David Thielen - 28 Sep 2007 17:34 GMT

Hi;

Any suggestions on how to pick a substitute font in this case? Or is there
no way to know and I should just use Times New Roman?

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Walter Wang [MSFT] - 03 Oct 2007 03:28 GMT

Hi Dave,

Sorry for late reply.

My suggestion would be just first check if the font is installed or not, if
not, then fall back to the default dialog font (which should handle font
substitution correctly).

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David Thielen - 03 Oct 2007 16:48 GMT

Good suggestion - will do.

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