Is it possible to use a Font from a location that is not installed on the users machine.
for example I made a custom font I am going to distribute with my app in a app directory.
since it will be a portable app I dont want to have to install/uninstall font every time the app is run.
I would like to be able to use the font by calling it from its location
something like this, but in pure python/wx
Ex: font = wx.FontFromLocation(‘MyTrueTypeFont.ttf’)
Is it possible to use a Font from a location that is not installed on the
users machine.
Years ago I asked about this on the main wx list -- at the time the
answer was : that would be a nice feature, but someone needs to write
the code -- I have no idea if anyone did get around to writing that
code -- I now I didn't.
If you need to render your text in a DC or custom control (rather than
a built-in widget), a kludge would be to use something else (PIL, for
instance) to render it to a bitmap, and draw that to the DC or
whatever.
Painful, I know.
-Chris
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Metallicow <metaliobovinus@gmail.com> wrote:
for example I made a custom font I am going to distribute with my app in a
app directory.
since it will be a portable app I dont want to have to install/uninstall
font every time the app is run.
I would like to be able to use the font by calling it from its locationsomething like this, but in pure python/wx
Ex: font = wx.FontFromLocation('MyTrueTypeFont.ttf')--
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