When I have loaded a dynamic font in Windows with
AddFontResource("myfontpath.ttf");
I need to choose it on the canvas and draw text with it:
Canvas.Font.Family := "myfontname"
On OS X and iOS it works fine! - because loading of the custom font is done through the .plist outside of the application. However, on Windows it does not recognize the font and falls back to a standard font.
I found these topics indicating that it is a general problem with FMX. Firemonkey: Adding a font from resource to memory and using it and Install font in firemonkey
These questions do NOT end up with a solution, though one of them suggest working with styles, but in my situation I am using the font on a custom non-styled component (inherited from TControl and not from TStyledControl)
Did anyone find a solution or a workaround?
PS. Installing the font by the installer in Windows is not an option because the font should be hidden for other applications. It is not a text font! I use AddFontResourceEx( ... ,FR_PRIVATE, ... ) to achieve this, but the FMX problem I describe is the same with AddFontResource.
