Font differences between IOS versions

[Howard Bornstein]

Hmmm, these are Apple's fonts which are included in IOS 5.x and IOS 4.3 for
the iPad. Do you believe I have to have an official license from Apple to
use their fonts in their products?

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Hakan at Exformedia.se <Hakan at exformedia.se>wrote:

> A word of caution...
> ...if YOU install fonts YOU need to license them...
>
> Håkan Liljegren
> Exformation Designer
> http://www.exformedia.se/
>
> 27 aug 2012 kl. 23:29 skrev Howard Bornstein:
>
> > There are quite a few fonts that were not supported in earlier versions
> of
> > IOS. I am targeting my app to run on IOS 4.3 and later and I want the
> app,
> > when run under IOS 4.3, to have access to the same fonts as people
> running
> > V5.x. To do so, I've done a custom install of the missing fonts into my
> > app. This has worked fine, except that there are two fonts which do not
> > properly display.
> >
> > One is Optima Bold. It always displays as Optima ExtraBlack. I can switch
> > between the two and there is no difference.
> >
> > The second is Papyrus. It always displays as Papyrus-Condensed.
> >
> > I have verified that the versions that I want, i.e. Optima-Bold, and
> > Papyrus, are listed as available fonts when I compile for IOS 4.3, but
> they
> > still display as the other variations of these fonts as I have
> described. I
> > don't know enough about how fonts are displayed on IOS devices to
> > understand why this is happening. At first I thought that it was because
> > IOS 4.3 simply couldn't support these fonts, but I see that they are both
> > supported under IOS 4.3 on the iPad (actually, Papyrus-Condensed isn't
> > supported until IOS 5, but Papyrus *is *supported under 4.3), so I don't
> > think that is the problem.
> >
> > I would be grateful if anyone had an explanation or solution for this
> issue.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Howard Bornstein
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Regards,

Howard Bornstein
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