TextRendered with uninstalled font ?

Hi,

as the destination machines I should run my program on, dont have the font I want to use, I load the font from my "fonts" folder instead of using windows installed fonts, but it does not work

If I load it from windows installed fonts, it works

loadUninstalledFont seems to work and return a good font object, but nothing is printed on the screen


    //load
    bigFont = new TextRenderer(Tools.loadUninstalledFont("fonts/SFDistantGalaxy.ttf"));

    // this works but requires font to be installed in windows
    // bigFont = new TextRenderer(new Font("SF Distant Galaxy", Font.PLAIN, 12));

    public static Font loadUninstalledFont(String fileName)
    {
        InputStream fontStream;
        try {
            fontStream = new FileInputStream(fileName);
            return Font.createFont( Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, fontStream );
        } catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        } catch (FontFormatException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
        return null;
    }


// draw text
        bigFont.beginRendering(getWidth(), getHeight());
        tinyFont.setColor(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
        bigFont.draw("test", 100, 100);
        bigFont.flush();
        bigFont.endRendering();

thanks

answer:

Font font = Font.createFont( Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, new File(fileName) );
            return font.deriveFont(format,size);