Loading TrueType fonts?

Well, i was originally going to create a TrueType font loader, but after looking into the file specification there is ALOT of work which i would need to do, so i was wondering if there was a java package that can already do this for me?
Example;
Program connects to server -> server sends program a font file -> program then needs to use this file with the "Font" class, but i don't know if that class only uses installed fonts or if there is another way to do it via my program, but i don't want the fonts installed on the users system i would rather them be only available in the program of us.
Thanks for any help or info relating to my problem, any links to java api's would be a great help.

Read the API for java.awt.Font#createFont(int fontFormat, File fontFile). note that to make the newly created Font available for use with a FOnt constructor, you have to first register it with the GraphicsEnvironment. Also that the created Font has a point size of 1.
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package topng;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.FontFormatException;
import java.awt.FontMetrics;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
* @author jarl
public class Main extends JPanel {
     * @param args the command line arguments
    public static class ExitListener extends WindowAdapter {
        @Override
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent event) {
    System.exit(0);
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        super();
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        Graphics g2 = image.createGraphics();
        g2.setFont(font);
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        FontMetrics measure = new FontMetrics(g2.getFont()) {};
        Rectangle2D stringDims = measure.getStringBounds(alphabet, g);
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        g2.drawString(alphabet, 0, (int)stringDims.getHeight()*3/4);
        try {
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        } catch (IOException ex) {
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The desired behavior is to load a truetype font, write hello in a JPanel, and then draw the alphabet on a BufferedImage and write it to a file, I thought the poorly indented WindowAdapter would be a minor enough infraction to get away with, I tried the version of createFont that takes a file, and while I've certainly never heard it encouraged I've never heard of not removing IDE comments being poor practice(although I do try to leave my name off the internet), sorry for that. Also, on reflection I guess I could have left out the part about writing a png, it kind of made it's way into the smallest model of what I'm trying to do but the problem is just loading the font.
Anyway I think I figured it out, the font was created, but it had a size of 1 because when I called the deriveFont method I passed integer values for my size, but that ended up causing the derivedFont method that accepts an integer for a style to be called. I tried font = font.deriveFont(20f); and that solved my problem.

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Thank you for replication,
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