WP7和WP8项目中的字体不同

Question

this is quite a strange thing I've run into. I've been developing Windows Phone Apps for over a year now, and even with the WP8 switch i never seen this before.

If i take my WP 7.1 app and upgrade it to WP 8 the font gets quite messed up, shown in the two screenshots below. (Both taken from my WP8 Lumia 620)

1. WP 7.1 Version -

2. WP 8 Version -

Quite strange indeed, the font used is "visitor1 TT1 BRK" from http://www.dafont.com/visitor.font

The font is set as a BlendEmbeddedFont and used in XAML like this:

FontFamily="/TronRadio;component/Fonts/Fonts.zip#Visitor TT1 BRK"

Is it a .NET 4.5 thing that needs to be set or some other kind of problem? It is the first time I've seen this problem, i have upgraded other apps with embedded fonts without running into this.

One note is that the font shows up fine in the Design Workplace (Visual Studio 2012 and Blend). However on the Windows Phone 8 and Emulators the above problems shows.

Thanks

Answer 1

Why don't you select the font in Expression Blend and then Embed it separately for Windows Phone 7 and 8 apps. This might help.