Hi,

I need to use Tahoma As Font Family for Textblock

<TextBlock Height="15.984" Width="29" Canvas.Left="280" Canvas.Top="21.016" Text="great Programming Work" TextWrapping="Wrap" FontFamily="Tahoma" FontSize="10"/>

But it not coming in Tahoma.

 Please Help.

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Sachin
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Tahoma is not one of the built in fonts for Silverlight:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.media.fontfamily(VS.95).aspx

 include it in your project first

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SteveWong (HongKong)
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SteveWong:

 include it in your project first

This is a risky suggestion. As I understand it, the font licenses on Windows don't allow for you to redistribute the font. Now if you could find a freeware or royalty free redistributable version of Tahoma, then you could include that one.

of course, you should have the permission for distribution of the FontFamily which is also a remind from MSDN

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SteveWong (HongKong)
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Hi,

Does any one have Free Tahoma font. Please provide me the link as MS Tahoma is non shareable . Hope to get Tahoma inside silverlight by end of silverlight 2 final release.

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 Sachin

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Hi,

If I unstand this right, embedding might be OK:

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FID=19&FNAME=Tahoma%20Bold&FVER=2.30
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/TrueTypeEmbedding.mspx

Stefan

Stefan,

Thanks for the link. 

It's hard to get a clear answer on this sort of stuff, it would be great if we could get an official stance from MS on embedding system fonts in Silverlight. When fonts are embedded in a Word doc, they're not in a readily consumable format, even with docx, you can't just rename it to a ZIP and grab the font because the font file is obfuscated, most likely to prevent someone from doing just that. In a Silverlight app, the font file is not obfuscated, so this could be a difference.

If this is an issue which makes it so that we can't legally embed font files, Microsoft should probably add obfuscated font support to Silverlight. 

Bill

I'm waiting for a response of a PSFD Task to Microsoft. I'll let you know, when I get the answer.

Stefan

Stefan

Ok great thanks, I'm also checking through one of my Microsoft contacts.

 Hi,

 I've got an answer:

 It's not allowed to deploy Tahoma. You have to buy a license from http://www.ascendercorp.com/inquiry.aspx?Ref=Microsoft

 Unfortunatly my contact person said there will be no new fonts in the final version.

Stefan

 Great work Stefan......

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Sachin
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