Loading and Unloading Custom Fonts with InDesign Plugin

Question

Hi All,
 
I have a custom open type font and i wants to load this font when my custom plugin loaded so that it won't be available to other user when custom plugin is not there.
Is there a way to Embed a font file as a resource in indesign sdk project so that font is available when plugin gets loaded. or some other alternate approach using native system api that I can use inside plugin code to load/unload it.
 
Regards,
Alam

Dirk Becker · Answer

Something like these?https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coretext/1499468-ctfontmanagerregisterfontsforurlhttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wingdi/nf-wingdi-addfontresourceexaYou'd eventually register your font before use by your widget draw, then unregister afterward so that it does not show in InDesign Font UI.On the other hand if it works at all, it may cause a serious performance penalty whenever InDesign's font manager is reset. You'd also have to figure out how to associate the font with a UI font ID if you use that kind of widgets.I'd stick to graphics as Robert suggested - e.g. try whether the SVG subset supported by widgets can embed a font (that would be woff rather than otf).https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/5162/how-do-i-embed-google-web-fonts-into-an-svg

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