Setting fonts as resources or input streams

Aspose.Words Product Family
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Hello,


Is it possible to set fonts for Aspose.Words as resources or input streams?
The problem that our fonts are stored inside war-archive and these fonts do not have physical file folders which Aspose can take in FontSettings.

Best regards, Evgeniy
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Hi Evgeniy,


Thanks for your inquiry. I am in communication with our development team and will update you as soon as I have information on this topic.

PS: Aspose.Words supports Embedded TrueType fonts. This means you can use TrueTypes fonts embedded into the template you are using for generating documents.

Best regards,
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Hi Awais,


Could you communicate with the development team and discuss the topic?

Regarding “Embedded fonts” - thank you, I know the feature, but it cannot help me completely.
I need to add fonts dynamically and cannot store the fonts indide the document template.

I see two possible variants:
1) New method addFont(InputStream inputStream) or addFont(byte[] bytes) to have possibility to add font from any location.

2) To use Spring-notation to define resources location.
file:C:/Windows/Fonts
classpath:com.mycompany.fonts
In the second case “com.mycompany.fonts” is not a physical path in filesystem but the resource path which can be used by a classloader.

Best regards, Evgeniy
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Hi Evgeniy,


Thanks for the additional information. I have passed your suggestions to our development team. I will update you as soon as I have any information about it.

Best regards,
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Hi Evgeniy,


Thanks for being patient. You can instruct Aspose.Words to look for TrueType fonts in system folders as well as in a custom stream/byte[] object when scanning for fonts by using the following code snippet:
// Retrieve the array of environment-dependent font sources that are searched by default. For example this will contain a “Windows\Fonts” source on a Windows machines.

// We add this array to a new ArrayList to make adding or removing font entries much easier.

ArrayList fontSources = new ArrayList(Arrays.asList(FontSettings.getFontsSources()));

// Add your custom font to the list.

MemoryFontSource memoryFontSource = new MemoryFontSource(your byte[] font data here);

fontSources.add(memoryFontSource);


// Convert the Arraylist of source back into a primitive array of FontSource objects.

FontSourceBase[] updatedFontSources = (FontSourceBase[]) fontSources.toArray(new FontSourceBase[fontSources.size()]);


// Apply the new set of font sources to use.

FontSettings.setFontsSources(updatedFontSources);
I hope, this helps.

Best regards,
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Hi Awais,


Thank you very much for the code sample!

Best regards, Evgeniy