Scott, It sounds like you are implying that none of the existing livecode fonts are TrueType. I thought that Helvetica was a trueType font, but in my testing it does not seem to scale.
Humm re-re-reading your message.... so I need to find out the name of the base fonts in IOS and use one of them? I have no fonts of my own and have no idea where to get them or understand any of the licensing issues. So I am looking to use an existing font if possible. -= Mike On Mar 13, 2013, at 6:24 PM, Scott Rossi <sc...@tactilemedia.com> wrote: > BTW, one thing you'll need to figure out is how iOS "sees" the name of > your font. What I do is create a dummy development app for iOS, include > the font in the build, install it, and then use the fontNames function in > the dummy app to get a list of fonts and determine the name of the font as > it appears on IOS. Not sure if there's a better/faster way to do this, > but the name that iOS will come up with is never intuitive. > > AFAIK, there is no way to include a custom font other than including it as > a non-stack file to be included in the build of a standalone. If somebody > knows otherwise, I'd love to know how to do this. > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Media, UX Design > > > > > On 3/13/13 3:17 PM, "Scott Rossi" <sc...@tactilemedia.com> wrote: > >> I'm pretty sure you need to convert to TTF format (unless something has >> changed in iOS6). >> I use this site for online conversion: http://www.freefontconverter.com/ >> >> Regards, >> >> Scott Rossi >> Creative Director >> Tactile Media, UX Design >> >> >> >> >> On 3/13/13 3:04 PM, "Michael Doub" <miked...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Are there trueType fonts supported on IOS? >>> >>> -= Mike >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mar 13, 2013, at 4:14 PM, Peter Bogdanoff <bogdan...@me.com> wrote: >>> >>>> LiveCode scales fonts pretty well-- >>>> set the textSize of field "theField" to 12 -- or whatever >>>> >>>> TrueType fonts can scale any size and still look good. >>>> >>>> Peter Bogdanoff >>>> UCLA >>>> >>>> On Mar 13, 2013, at 12:39 PM, Michael Doub <miked...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I would like to create a mobile application where the user can >>>> increase >>>> and decrease the text in a field. The field contains text on different >>>> font sizes for Title, Heading and basic text. >>>> >>>> I am unsure how to work with fonts. Do I need to find a font that has >>>> a >>>> wide range of sizes or are there scalable fonts? How do fonts react on >>>> different screen resolutions? This makes me wonder about how the text >>>> in >>>> buttons should be handled. (So far I have only used icons) >>>> >>>> I would appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Mike >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> use-livecode mailing list >>>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>>> subscription preferences: >>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> use-livecode mailing list >>>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>>> subscription preferences: >>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
