how to serialize font

By default the Font is not XML Serializable since it doesn't have a default (empty) constructor. You can create your own class holding the properties of the font that you need, and serialize that class..


fex:

public class SerializableFont
{
    public string FontFamily { get; set; }
    public GraphicsUnit GraphicsUnit { get; set; }
    public float Size { get; set; }
    public FontStyle Style { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// Intended for xml serialization purposes only
    /// </summary>
    private SerializableFont() { }

    public SerializableFont(Font f)
    {
        FontFamily = f.FontFamily.Name;
        GraphicsUnit = f.Unit;
        Size = f.Size;
        Style = f.Style;
    }

    public static SerializableFont FromFont(Font f)
    {
        return new SerializableFont(f);
    }

    public Font ToFont()
    {
        return new Font(FontFamily, Size, Style,
            GraphicsUnit);
    }
}

source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1940127/how-to-xmlserialize-system-drawing-font-class[^]


Another way is to Base64 encode the font and decode it back when you need it..