Name of font by powershell

Question 1

I’m trying to write a Poweshell script that installs all fonts (in formats .ttf and .otf) from a given directory. However I want to ignore fonts that are already installed. For that purpose I need to get the names (not the filenames) of the fonts.

How can I do that?

Question 2

EDITED from comments from @LotPings

You can use .NET for that. In the following example you go through the list of files in a given path, then use the class PrivateFontCollection to retrieve the font names.

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Drawing
$path = "<path to the fonts>\*.ttf"

$ttfFiles = Get-ChildItem $path

$fontCollection = new-object System.Drawing.Text.PrivateFontCollection

$ttfFiles | ForEach-Object {
    $fontCollection.AddFontFile($_.fullname)
    $fontCollection.Families[-1].Name
}

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Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Drawing

$path = "\*.ttf"

$ttfFiles = Get-ChildItem $path

$fontCollection = new-object System.Drawing.Text.PrivateFontCollection

$ttfFiles | ForEach-Object {

$fontCollection.AddFontFile($_.fullname)

$fontCollection.Families[-1].Name

}

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