Scaling Fonts

[Michael Doub]

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 <scott at 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" <scott at 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" <mikedoub at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Are there trueType fonts supported on IOS?
>>> 
>>> -= Mike
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mar 13, 2013, at 4:14 PM, Peter Bogdanoff <bogdanoff at 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 <mikedoub at 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
>>>> 
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