Scaling Fonts

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Wed Mar 13 18:47:43 EDT 2013


On 3/13/13 5:37 PM, Michael Doub wrote:
> 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.

If you're happy with the default font, it will scale fine without any 
effort on your part. Leave the textfont setting empty for everything and 
the default font will be used automatically. You can still set the 
textsize and textstyle if you want, it won't interfere.

Textsize does need to be adjusted depending on the screen resolution. 
You'd need to experiment to see what sizes look right on regular and 
retina screens.

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