Installing Fonts using NSIS

Question

I am installing fonts in my setup application using:

Section "Fonts"
  SetOutPath "$FONTS"
  StrCpy $FONT_DIR $FONTS
    !insertmacro InstallTTFfont '..\FONTS\English\Arial.ttf'
    SendMessage ${HWND_BROADCAST} ${WM_FONTCHANGE} 0 0 /TIMEOUT=5000
SectionEnd

(I have included !include FontReg.nsh and !include FontName.nsh) At times, especially on Win 7(with UAC enabled), the setup progress goes into a non-reponsive mode(progress bar remains frozen at the end of the font installation and setup does not proceed). Is there anything to avoid this scenario?. Kindly help.

Thanks, Bomzinho

Answer 1

There is some macros dedicated for registering fonts available on the NSIS wiki. They do a bit more than just copying the .ttf file.

Also you could look at the page on http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Advanced_Font_Installation