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Public static extern int AddFontResourceA(string lpFileName)

#Windows 7 how to install a new font code

In the event this code becomes irretrievable in the future, I have copied it directly into the answer. The code can be found in the following pastebin link: I managed to come up with a working code with my colleague and I thought I'd share it for everyone. I've been having the same issue for the past few days and each solution I found was producing different problems. If you need your Font installations to be completely transparent, I would suggest launching your application with elevated permissions and approve of the UAC up front, that way when you spawn your child processes you wont need user approval Permissions stuff You'll also have to have administrator privileges.

Note that the Fonts have to be in the root of wherever FontReg.exe is located. FontReg enables you to programatically install an entire directory of Fonts by invoking the executable with the /copy switch: var info = new ProcessStartInfo() The more intriguing option is a utility called FontReg that replaces the deprecated fontinst.exe that was included on older versions of Windows. As far as I know there is no way to invoke the "Install" portion of this process as an argument, but even if there was you'd still have to elevate permissions and battle UAC.

The advantage here is it's really trivial, but it still requires user interaction per font to install. This is akin to launching it manually from Windows Explorer. Windows has a built-in utility called fontview.exe, which you can invoke simply by calling Process.Start("Path\to\file.ttf") on any valid TrueType Font. I don't know your specific use cases but I'll run down the methods I know of and maybe one will be of use to you. As you mentioned, you can launch other executables to install TrueType Fonts for you.