A question about fonts (500 points)

The font class exposes some details

to get a list of all installed fonts on the system you can use:

System.Drawing.Text.InstalledFontCollection c = new System.Drawing.Text.InstalledFontCollection();
foreach( System.Drawing.FontFamily f in c.Families)
{
   // query about each here
}

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Thank you wht1986.

I can use the InstalledFontCollection to get some of the detail I have t get such as family and metrics. However, for the project upon whic I am working, these details are of less importance than details such as embedded descriptions, licences, trademarks, copyright etc.

Microsoft provides a tool that shows the sort of stuff I have to collect for the project. The tool is at http://www.microsoft.com/typography/PropertiesEditor.mspx. Unfortunately I cannot find anything on the MS sites that describe how to get at the information embedded in the font file.

The attached images show examples of the sort of stuff you can extract extract. (They are snapshots of the MS tool to which I refer.)
fontproperties.jpg
fontproperties2.jpg
fontproperties3.jpg

Thank you. The link yp coderproject does the trick. The author of that article nor only explains ttfs fonts but provides code, albeit in C that I'll need to translate.