iPhone Development: how to use custom fonts?

Question

I used a special font in my photoshop design,

1. is it possible to use these fonts natively in the iphone app? or

2. do I need to convert them into an image first?

3. If this is the only way to do it, what do you do with dynamic text?

Answer 1

1. Copy your font file into Resources

2. In your application .plist create (if it's exist just create a row) a row called "Fonts provided by application" and then in "item 0" copy your font name for example "Ciutadella-Bold.otf" (if there are some spaces in font name, rename it and for example replace all spaces to minus '-')

3. Then you can define this font in your application:

   UIFont *CiutadellaBold = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Ciutadella-Bold" size:17.0f];
   

4. And use in for instance in uiLabel:

   [uiLabel setFont:CiutadellaBold];