Using System.Drawing for a Custom Font

[jjbutera]

I have a custom font installed on my machine, but I can't seem to use
it with System.Drawing.

Dim f As New Font("MyCustomFontName", 20, FontStyle.Regular)

This just gives me the default of Arial. Is there something I should
know? Is there only a specific set of fonts that can be used with the
Font class?


Thanks,

Jason

 

[jjbutera]

Thanks,

I found the PrivateFontCollection which can do what I want!
' Load Font
Dim fontName As String = "myfont.ttf"
Dim pfcoll As New System.Drawing.Text.PrivateFontCollection
pfcoll.AddFontFile(Server.MapPath("~\" & fontName))
Dim ff As FontFamily = pfcoll.Families(0)
Dim f As New Font(ff, 11, FontStyle.Regular)