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sonnykr
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11 years ago

[Solved] Problem rendering custom otf font

Hey All,

I am trying to embed a custom font to the app using roFontRegistry. I register 5 types of the same font (Bold, Extrabold, Light, Medium and Regular). All of these fonts are open type (.otf)

FontNameBold.otf
FontNameExtraBold.otf
FontNameLight.otf
FontNameMedium.otf
FontNameRegular.otf

The Register(path as String) call returns true for each font, but when I invoke GetFamilies(), it returns only 1 ("FontName") instead of 5 ("FontNameBold", "FontNameExtraBold", "FontNameLight", "FontNameMedium", "FontNameRegular"). Also when I applied that font to a text on image canvas, it doesn't seems to render the font properly.

Font type: Open type font file
Font embeddability: Installable

Any idea why this happens?
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5 Replies

  • NewManLiving's avatar
    NewManLiving
    Visitor
    11 years ago
    You could try using a font editor to rename each font differently. I had a similar problem and solved it by creating unique names for each file
  • sonnykr's avatar
    sonnykr
    Visitor
    11 years ago
    I already have each of them as different files.

    Like this:

    FontNameBold.otf
    FontNameExtraBold.otf
    FontNameLight.otf
    FontNameMedium.otf
    FontNameRegular.otf

    Is that what u are talking about?
  • NewManLiving's avatar
    NewManLiving
    Visitor
    11 years ago
    You need to open each file with a font editor and change each family name to something different. I would change the font name to the same as the filename without the extension. Apparently there is some kind of issue with the api and font names. You can get a font editor as freeware
  • NewManLiving's avatar
    NewManLiving
    Visitor
    11 years ago
    As a side benefit the font editor allows you to remove all the stuff you do not need thus reducing your font files by up to 2 thirds in size in some cases.