Question

I am having problem in using this font in my Application. I have imported the Arial-Narrow.ttf file in my resources and also added the name in the info.plist as follow

<key>UIAppFonts</key>
<array>
    <string>Arial-Narrow.ttf</string>
</array>

Now whenever I try to use the font in my app using the code

titleLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Arial-Narrow" size:28];

It does not work. However it works if I use a different font with same procedure. So can anybody explain what I am missing here or do we are allowed to use Arial Narrow font in my iphone app.

Answer 1

Ok I found a solution. I used this Library to use Arial-Narrow font in my app. So if anyone having the same problem can benefit from this library using the following steps.

1) Download the Library from the link I provided above.
2) Import the folder FontLabel (with all the classes in it) into your project where you want to use the custom font.
3) Import the custom font (i.e Arial-Narrow.ttf in my case) file into Resource folder. You don’t need to add the fonts file names in your plist file.
4) Import the header in your class where you want to use the custom font like

#import "FontLabel.h"

5) Use this code to initialize this FontLabel with you custom font.

FontLabel *titleLabel = [[FontLabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 10, 0, 0) fontName:@"Arial-Narrow" pointSize:28.0f];

You can explore this library for more features.