Trouble witt Custom Fonts

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#21

Is it possible that Corona’s trial version doesn’t support custom fonts?

I’ve made a test project using the documentation referred font, Harrowprint.ttf, and it doesn’t work.
From here: http://developer.anscamobile.com/content/display-objects#Using_a_custom_font

If I don’t add any font in my build.settings file I get 374 fonts and if I do add I get the same 374 fonts.
I’ve used the referred sample code from here: http://developer.anscamobile.com/reference/index/nativegetfontnames

My build.settings file

settings = {   
 orientation = {  
 default = "portrait",  
 supported = { "portrait", }  
 },  
  
 iphone = {  
 plist = {  
 UIAppFonts =  
 {  
 "Harrowprint.ttf"  
 }  
 }  
 },   
}

My main.lua file

local \_w = display.contentWidth  
local \_h = display.contentHeight  
  
local \_crf = display.CenterReferencePoint  
  
local testText = display.newText("Custom fonts", 0, 0, "Harrowprint", 48)  
testText:setReferencePoint(\_crf)  
testText.x = \_w \* 0.5  
testText.y = \_h \* 0.5  
local g = display.newGroup()  
local fonts = native.getFontNames()  
local count, found\_count = 0, 0  
for i,fontname in ipairs(fonts) do  
 count = count+1  
end  
print ("Font count: " .. count)  
local count\_text = display.newText("Found " .. count .. " fonts.", 0, (found\_count) \* 40, fontname, 18)  
g:insert(count\_text)  
count\_text:setTextColor(255, 255, 255)

Thanks
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#22

Hi,

I have a similar problem,

The custom font works perfect in the corona simulator but on the device I get the native standard font instead of the custom one.

And I’m using 3 different custom fonts but it’s just one of them with this problem.

What problem could cause this?

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#23

Could be an unsupported font, you could be using the wrong name to refer to it in your project, you could perhaps have forgotten to include the actual font in your project.

Those are some of the main issues that come up.

@edazevdeo - no problem using fonts as a test user.

@matt - what font is not working of the three? Can try and test it here and see if it works for me to help isolate.

Peach :slight_smile: [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 17737 reply_id: 105328[/import]

#24

Yea sure, here it is http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1419721/TKTNGCRD.TTF [import]uid: 103492 topic_id: 17737 reply_id: 105349[/import]