Windows XP and Fonts

[Jim Harrison]

Hello,

I was wondering if in Java it can recognize fonts that are in a different directory. The reason why I'm asking is I'm using GIMP and it allows me to place .ttf files under my home account (and don't seem to be known by Windows b/c I never install them): C:\my_home_dir\.gimp-2.4\fonts. GIMP recognizes those fonts and thus alleviate Windows from getting bloated.

That directory is going to get large (1000+ font files) as I'm doing graphic editing. I don't care about these fonts being registered with Windows.

So where does Java fit in: I'm going to write a program that takes as word and a font size and shows me what that word looks like in all those fonts and size.

Thanks, Jim

[Campbell Ritchie]

Have you found the GraphicsEnvironment#getAllFonts() method. I think you need a static method of GraphicsEnvironment to get an instance, then you can call getAllFonts on that.

[Tony Docherty]

Have you found the GraphicsEnvironment#getAllFonts() method.

Unfortunately, I think this will only work for installed fonts.

@Jim Harrison
I believe you will have to load each of the uninstalled fonts using one of the Font.createFont(..) methods.
You can register these fonts with the graphics environment using the GraphicsEnvironment.registerFont(..) method. As far as I'm aware this isn't compulsary but it does mean you can use the GraphicsEnvironment.getAllFonts() or GraphicsEnvironment.getAvailableFontFamilyNames() methods to get a single list of all the installed and registered fonts.