Deployment Oddity - Changing Font/Style

This got put on the back burner for a while as a "Low Priority".

Still not fully completed it - but thought I should mention some progress.
I believe David's settings above will fix my problem, once I get the Chart working again. :D

Have finally got the DrawString (as described above) to work.
This took some bashing of code, and finally appears to have come down to a corrupted Arial Font.

This font was finally removed via Safe Mode and updated with one from another Server and finally it worked. This was loaded via the Control Panel/Font by dragging and dropping from a temp C drive location.

Anyone else encountering this problem may benefit from my code below.

The InstalledFontCollection is a list of the fonts that the GDI+ has access to, thus if it's not appearing it won't be able to use it.

As you can see, the Arial Font is being added using the PrivateFontCollection - which is how I discovered the Font file had become corrupted. This should allow you to utilise any Font on the Server without it being part of the GDI+.

NB: GetBaseURL(), gets the Base Path to the Application, which varies across servers with different Port Numbers.

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
 try
 {
 //Force garbage collection - should help solve some GDI+ issues
 GC.Collect();

 PrivateFontCollection pfc = new PrivateFontCollection();
 pfc.AddFontFile(@"c:\windows\fonts\Arial.ttf");

 Font arial = new Font(pfc.Families[0], 12, FontStyle.Bold);
 Font bliss = new Font("Bliss2-Regular", 12, FontStyle.Bold);
 Font Haettenschweiler = new Font("Haettenschweiler", 12, FontStyle.Bold);
 Font Wingdings = new Font("Wingdings", 12, FontStyle.Bold);

 Bitmap bmp = new System.Drawing.Bitmap(250, 250);
 Graphics gfx = Graphics.FromImage(bmp);

 gfx.Clear(System.Drawing.Color.White);

 gfx.TextRenderingHint = TextRenderingHint.AntiAlias;

 gfx.DrawString("Arial Test", arial, Brushes.Black, 10, 10);
 gfx.DrawString("Bliss Test", bliss, Brushes.Black, 10, 30);
 gfx.DrawString("Haettenschweiler Test", Haettenschweiler, Brushes.Black, 10, 50);
 gfx.DrawString("Wingdings Test", Wingdings, Brushes.Black, 10, 70);

 gfx.Dispose();
 GC.Collect();

 string mypath = Server.MapPath("~/ChartImages/") + "test.png";
 Response.Write(" Server Mapped Path: " + mypath);
 Response.Write(" GetBaseURL Path: " + GetBaseURL() + "/ChartImages/test.png");

 bmp.Save(mypath, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png);
 System.Web.UI.WebControls.Image tmpImage = new System.Web.UI.WebControls.Image();

 tmpImage.ImageUrl = GetBaseURL() + "ChartImages/test.png";

 Page.Controls.Add(tmpImage);

 InstalledFontCollection insFont = new InstalledFontCollection();
 Response.Write(" Number Of Fonts In InstalledFontCollection: " + insFont.Families.GetLength(0).ToString());
 foreach (FontFamily ff in insFont.Families)
 {
 Response.Write(ff.Name.ToString() + " ");
 }


 }
 catch (Exception ex)
 {
 Response.Write(" " + ex.Message);
 }
 }