Embedding a font in a report template

rbuser

Does anyone know if it is possible to embed a font in a report so that it
does not need to be installed fully into windows. The reason i need to do
this is because i have a security font which i do not want to be available
in other windows based applications but need to be able to use it in one of
my reports.

Any help is much appreciated

Tony Wood
Turnkey Computer Technology Ltd
Glasgow

digitalmetaphors

You should be able to make a windows API call to locate the Windows
directory on a machine. Then you can copy the font to the fonts folder in
that directory, so you can print the report using that font. Then you can
delete the font once you've printed the report.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Thanks for your reply,

However, your answer means that the file has to be on an end users machine
and hence someone with a bit of technical expertise could be able to copy
the file and install it manually and then be able to use the font from
within other windows apps.

This font must not be available to anybody except from within my app for
security reasons. Any other ideas anyone?

Tony

rbuser

You could store it in your exe, or in a BLOB field in a database. Then write
it to a file in the Windows font directory when you need it, and delete it
afterwards. Look up the standard Pascal file read/write operations, and the
streaming stuff.

Alternatively, it could remain in a separate file, but you could encrypt
it - there are tools for this e.g. from www.TurboPower.com.

rbuser

I like the sound of storing it in the exe file. Can you point me in the
direction of how this can be done.

Thanks for your reply.

Tony