Is there any way to include font to a clickOnce installation of a winforms application in visual studio. The program that we are developing requires a font that is not installed in windows by default.
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Can you create a setup & deployment project to install the font, and deploy it as a prerequisite to the ClickOnce application. You can turn it into a custom prerequisite by using the Bootstrapper Manifest Generator to create the prerequisite package, copy into the VS packages folder, and it will show up in Visual Studio as a prerequisite.
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You can load the font into a res file and have it loaded without being installed to the computer.
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Unfortunately that won't help since we need to actually install the font on the computer. – Jargo Jan 24 '10 at 07:39
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then perhaps you can p/invoke the function add font resource to install it if your program finds it missing. see http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/gdi32.AddFontResource – Mitch Jan 24 '10 at 20:51
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@RubberDuck, you must be looking at the 4.5 page. Just select the [4.0 version](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms753303(v=vs.100).aspx). The target page is quite long, and the summary is to "include the font in a resource file, and load it from there". – Mitch Aug 10 '15 at 14:04
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1Or you could add relevant information here in your answer and fix the links @Mitch. – RubberDuck Aug 10 '15 at 14:55
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For anyone who stumbles on this in the future: There is a similar topic with more up-to-date and more detailed answers regarding this issue- Embedding/deploying custom font in .NET app
