Using Open-Type font in C#

[Alan Balkany]

Hi all, My application lets a user select a True Type font from the FontFamily.Families enumeration:

        foreach (FontFamily ff in FontFamily.Families)
        {
            if(ff.IsStyleAvailable(FontStyle.Regular))
                fontCombo.Items.Add(ff.Name);                                             
        }

This doesn't work for Open Type fonts, e.g. I just installed Costura Light, and it's now available in MS Word, but invisible to my enumeration above. Googling doesn't reveal any solution to this; all the sites just assume the font is there after you install it. What do I have to do to make Open-Type fonts available? Thanks! ========================= EDIT -- THERE'S NO SIMPLE WAY TO DO THIS: GDI+ ONLY SUPPORTS TRUE TYPE. THERE'S A CONVOLUTED WAY TO USE GDI FOR OPEN-TYPE FONTS FROM MANAGED C++ DESCRIBED HERE: http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/g-m/gdi/fonthandlinganddetection/article.php/c10621/Make-GDI-Less-Finicky-About-Fonts.htm[^]

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