GlyphTypeface Class

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Specifies a physical font face that corresponds to a font file on the disk.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  System.Windows.Media.GlyphTypeface

Namespace:  System.Windows.Media
Assembly:  System.Windows (in System.Windows.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public NotInheritable Class GlyphTypeface
public sealed class GlyphTypeface

The GlyphTypeface type exposes the following members.

Properties

  Name Description
Public propertySupported by Silverlight for Windows Phone FontFileName Gets or sets the font file name for the GlyphTypeface object.
Public propertySupported by Silverlight for Windows Phone Version Gets the font face version interpreted from the font's 'NAME' table.

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Methods

  Name Description
Public methodSupported by Silverlight for Windows Phone Equals(Object) Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected methodSupported by Silverlight for Windows Phone Finalize Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
Public methodSupported by Silverlight for Windows Phone GetHashCode Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
Public methodSupported by Silverlight for Windows Phone GetType Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected methodSupported by Silverlight for Windows Phone MemberwiseClone Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Public methodSupported by Silverlight for Windows Phone ToString Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)

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Remarks

The GlyphTypeface is a low-level text object that corresponds to a single face of a font family as represented by an OpenType font file, or serialized as a block of memory in a document.

The GlyphTypeface object provides properties and methods to obtain the name of the font and its version number.

Version Information

Silverlight

Supported in: 5, 4

Silverlight for Windows Phone

Supported in: Windows Phone OS 7.1

Platforms

For a list of the operating systems and browsers that are supported by Silverlight, see Supported Operating Systems and Browsers.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

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