Font Installation Script

I had a bunch of fonts that need to be installed during the build of  the golden image. I wrote this script to install them as a task sequence, but also to be able to deploy the fonts easily through SCCM. This script will install all fonts of the specified font type from the specified directory location. All of the fonts you want installed are to be placed in the specified directory location. The script will  then read all files in that location and filter out for the specified font type. It will then install each font individually and output the status on whether it installed or not.

I did write an older font installation script back in 2012 in vbscript located in this blog posting.

You can download the script from here.

 <#       
      .NOTES  
      ===========================================================================  
       Created with:      SAPIEN Technologies, Inc., PowerShell Studio 2015 v4.2.93  
       Created on:       9/18/2015 9:44 AM  
       Created by:       Mick Pletcher  
       Organization:        
       Filename:        install.ps1  
      ===========================================================================  
      .DESCRIPTION  
           This script will install all fonts of the specified font type from  
           the specified directory location. All of the fonts you want installed  
           are to be placed in the specified directory location. The script will  
           then read all files in that location and filter out for the specified  
           font type. It will then install each font individually and output  
           the status on whether it installed or not.   
 #>  
   
 function Get-RelativePath {  
      <#  
      .SYNOPSIS  
           Get-RelativePath  
      .DESCRIPTION  
           Defines the path which this script is being executed from  
      .EXAMPLE  
           $RelativePath = Get-RelativePath  
      #>  
        
      #Declare Local Variables  
      Set-Variable -Name RelativePath -Scope Local -Force  
        
      $RelativePath = (split-path $SCRIPT:MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path -parent) + "\"  
      Return $RelativePath  
        
      #Cleanup Local Variables  
      Remove-Variable -Name RelativePath -Scope Local -Force  
 }  
   
 Function Install-Fonts {  
      <#  
      .SYNOPSIS  
           Install-Fonts  
      .DESCRIPTION  
           Installs all fonts in the designated source directory.  
      .EXAMPLE  
           Install-Fonts -SourceDirectory "c:\Fonts" -FontType "ttf"  
      #>  
        
      Param ([String]  
           $SourceDirectory,  
           [String]  
           $FontType)  
        
      #Define Local Variables  
      Set-Variable -Name File -Scope Local -Force  
      Set-Variable -Name Files -Scope Local -Force  
      Set-Variable -Name Fonts -Scope Local -Force  
      Set-Variable -Name i -Scope Local -Force  
      Set-Variable -Name sa -Scope Local -Force  
        
      $FontType = "*." + $FontType  
      $sa = new-object -comobject shell.application  
      $Fonts = $sa.NameSpace(0x14)  
      $Files = Get-ChildItem $SourceDirectory -Filter $FontType  
      For ($i = 0; $i -lt $Files.Count; $i++) {  
           $Output = $Files[$i].Name + "....."  
           Write-Host $Files[$i].Name"....." -NoNewline  
           $File = $Env:windir + "\Fonts\" + $Files[$i].Name  
           If ((Test-Path $File) -eq $false) {  
                $Fonts.CopyHere($Files[$i].FullName)  
                If ((Test-Path $File) -eq $true) {  
                     Write-Host "Installed" -ForegroundColor Yellow  
                } else {  
                     Write-Host "Failed" -ForegroundColor Red  
                }  
           } else {  
                Write-Host "Installed" -ForegroundColor Yellow  
           }  
      }  
        
      #Cleanup Local Variables  
      Remove-Variable -Name File -Scope Local -Force  
      Remove-Variable -Name Files -Scope Local -Force  
      Remove-Variable -Name Fonts -Scope Local -Force  
      Remove-Variable -Name i -Scope Local -Force  
      Remove-Variable -Name sa -Scope Local -Force  
 }  
   
 #Declare Local Variables  
 Set-Variable -Name RelativePath -Scope Local -Force  
   
 cls  
 $RelativePath = Get-RelativePath  
 Install-Fonts -SourceDirectory $RelativePath -FontType "ttf"  
 Install-Fonts -SourceDirectory $RelativePath -FontType "otf"  
   
 #Cleanup Local Variables  
 Remove-Variable -Name RelativePath -Scope Local -Force