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Font Fallback

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DrawingFontText

Draws multilanguage text with font fallback support.

Code Snippet

using (var bitmap = new Bitmap(400, 200, PixelFormat.Format24bppRgb, RgbColor.White))
using (var graphics = bitmap.GetGraphics())
{
    var fontRegistry = new CustomFontRegistry();

    var lobsterPsName = fontRegistry.Add("Lobster.ttf")[0].PostscriptName;
    var arialUnicodePsName = fontRegistry.Add("ARIALUNI.TTF")[0].PostscriptName;

    fontRegistry.FallbackFonts.Add(arialUnicodePsName);

    graphics.FontRegistry = fontRegistry;

    var dummyText = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, ex mel latine pertinax. 載自大制節規信兵著旋避漂。";

    var boundedText = new BoundedText(dummyText, graphics.CreateFont(lobsterPsName, 32f), new SolidBrush(RgbColor.Black))
    {
        Rectangle = new System.Drawing.RectangleF(20f, 20f, 360f, 360f),
    };

    graphics.DrawText(boundedText);

    bitmap.Save("FontFallback.png");
}

Input

Lobster.ttf

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ARIALUNI.TTF

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Output

FontFallback.png

FontFallback.png

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