Add support to load fonts from file

[cwensley]

Discussed in #2114

^{Originally posted by HaanstootZA January 14, 2022}
Hi

I am busy converting some winforms to Eto, but some of my code uses a font file.
Are there any plans to allow Eto to load from font files?

var fontCollection = new PrivateFontCollection() var heighInPixels = 12; fontCollection.AddFontFile(Path.Combine(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory, "glyphfont.ttf")); return new Font(fontCollection.Families[0], heightInPixels, GraphicsUnit.Pixel);

[morphx666]

I have been waiting for this since 2020 ;)

https://groups.google.com/g/eto-forms/c/lhW3RktLdZg

[cwensley]

😬 sorry it has taken so long! Hopefully it'll be an easy (ish) project. Did you end up using platform-specific code for these purposes?

[morphx666]

No worries @cwensley, I appreciate all the hard work that has been put into this project.

So, answering your question: no, I didn't use any platform-specific code. I simply included the font file as part of the install script.