Load, Extract Data and Save from TTF | .NET

Load TrueType Font from Disc

Aspose.Font for .NET API lets you read TrueType Font types from files stored in your digital storage. TrueType font files stored on disc can be loaded by using the following steps.

Define a new object of FontDefinition class
Specify FontType as TTF and FontFileDefinition as ttf
Create a TtfFont object and open the font file from FontDefinition object defined in the earlier step

The loading functionality is fully described in a separate paragraph called How to load fonts.

1// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-font/Aspose.Font-for-.NET
2string fileName= dataDir + "Montserrat-Regular.ttf"; //Font file name with full path
3
4FontDefinition fd = new FontDefinition(FontType.TTF, new FontFileDefinition("ttf", new FileSystemStreamSource(fileName)));
5TtfFont ttfFont = Aspose.Font.Font.Open(fd) as TtfFont;

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Save TTF Font

Once you load a TTF file, you may work with the font file, update some parameters and would like to save the file to disc. Aspose.Font for .NET lets you save TTF file to disc using the following steps.

Define a new object of FontDefinition class
Specify FontType as TTF and FontFileDefinition as ttf
Create a TtfFont object and open the font file from FontDefinition object defined in the earlier step
Make the required updates and save the updated Font file to disc using the TtfFont’s Save method

 1// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-font/Aspose.Font-for-.NET
  2//byte array to load Font from
  3string dataDir = RunExamples.GetDataDir_Data();
  4            
  5byte[] fontMemoryData = File.ReadAllBytes(dataDir + "Montserrat-Regular.ttf");
  6FontDefinition fd = new FontDefinition(FontType.TTF, new FontFileDefinition("ttf", new ByteContentStreamSource(fontMemoryData)));
  7TtfFont ttfFont = Aspose.Font.Font.Open(fd) as TtfFont;
  8
  9//Work with data from just loaded TtfFont object
 10
 11//Save TtfFont to disk
 12//Output Font file name with full path
 13string outputFile = RunExamples.GetDataDir_Data() + "Montserrat-Regular_out.ttf";
 14
 15ttfFont.Save(outputFile);

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For more examples go to Aspose.Font.Examples.sln solution, in the net-examples folder of the Aspose.Font Documentation Github repository.

Also, check our free online Font Manipulation Applications to see how the functionality can be implemented in a web solution.

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