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Greetings.
I would like to know how to use a custom font when creating a AcmText element using PDF Creator.
For example, I have a barcode font on my web server at the following location: "Custom_Font/Barcode_Font.TTF"
I would like to use the barcode font instead of the default font.
Thank you in Advance.
-chad
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Hi, You would need to install the font on your system, then use Style.FontName to use the font: http://www.essentialobjects.com/doc/4/eo.pdf.acm.acmstyle.fontname.aspxThanks!
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Thanks for the info. I was able to get it to work with other installed fonts but I can't get it to display with any barcode fonts. Do you have any suggestions? Here is the font: http://www.dafont.com/3of9-barcode.fontHere is my code:
Code: C#
//Create an ACM text object
AcmText Attendee_PIN = new AcmText("99001200");
Attendee_PIN.Style.FontName = "3 of 9 Barcode";
Attendee_PIN.Style.FontSize = 30f;
Attendee_PIN.Style.ForegroundColor = Color.Black;
I downloaded and installed several other barcode fonts and haven't had any luck yet. I'm able to see the fonts in Microsoft Word and render them in webpages so I know they work otherwise. Any suggestions you could give would be very appreciated. Thanks!
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Thanks for the additional information. We will look into this and get back to you as soon as possible.
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OK! I figured out the problem. After a bunch of testing I realized that the PDF wasn't displaying any fonts that weren't already in my system. Any new font that I installed (which most of which happened to be barcode fonts) wouldn't display. Once figuring this out I realized that it was probably my font cache. I went to Control Panel > Administration > Services > and started my "Windows Presentation Foundation Font Cache" service and rebooted. That fixed it!
FYI: I noticed that in my System32 folder the "FNTCACHE.DAT" file had a modify date of 1/1/2013 before I started the service and 12/9/2013 after I did (plus it was about 4 times larger).
Thanks for your help!
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Wow. We wouldn't have thought about that! Thank you very much for sharing!
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