Specify Default Fonts

What is this page about?

This page explains how to specify default fonts for rendering and layout.

See more details in the Manipulating and Substitution TrueType Fonts article.

We have a simple program which allows to convert a Word document to PDF. This is achieved by loading the document into the Aspose.Words document model (DOM) and calling the Save method with a “.PDF” extension.

You can specify the default font by calling the DefaultFontName property before the document is rendered.

The following code example shows how to specify default fonts:

Document doc = new Document("../../data/document.doc");

// If the default font defined here cannot be found during rendering then the closest font on the machine is used instead.
FontSettings.DefaultInstance.SubstitutionSettings.DefaultFontSubstitution.DefaultFontName = "Arial Unicode MS";

// Now the set default font is used in place of any missing fonts during any rendering calls.
doc.Save("Rendering.SetDefaultFont_Out.pdf");
doc.Save("Rendering.SetDefaultFont_Out.xps");