Silverlight: Laurence Moroney's Blog

Hi! (Henric from Tokyo here)

This is great and I assume this goes for Japanese as well?

On a side note, back in march 2006 I was working on a (WPF) project that made heavy use of flow documents. The application had a complex grid layout with several FlowDocumentPageViewers displaying Japanese content. One thing I noticed while doing this was that WPF was considerably slower at rendering quantities of Japanese glyphs as compared to rendering roman letters. (Naturally due to the complexity of a single glyph.)

Have you noticed any performance impact in WPF/e when rendering Chinese letters as opposed to roman?

hi, Laurence,

The two far east fonts that on winxp are pretty big. It's probably not a good idea to ask user to download a 10Mg font file.

So I would like to use those fonts if they are already on user's system.

How how can I specify the path?

FontUri="c:\windows\fonts\simsun.ttc"

works in most cases, but not all because user's  windows dir might be D:\win instead C:\windows.  And %SYSTEMROOT% environment variable doesn't work here.

Any Idea?

Thanks

Wensheng