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Using custom font in a UIWebView

I would like to display a custom font inside a UIWebView. I have already put the font in the plist under "Fonts provided by application". The code in use:

        UIWebView *webView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:myRect];
        NSURL *baseURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath]];
        [webView loadHTMLString:html baseURL:baseURL];
        [self addSubview:webView];

where html is an NSString that has the following contents:

<html><head>
<style type="text/css">
@font-face {
    font-family: gotham_symbol;
    src: local('GOTHAMboldSymbol_0.tff'), format('truetype') 
} 
body { 
 font-family: gotham_symbol;
font-size: 50pt;
}
</style>
</head><body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0">
This is <i>italic</i> and this is <b>bold</b> and this is some unicode: &#1101;
</body></html>

I'm using iOS 4.2 so TTF should be supported. I'd appreciate a bit of html/code that actually works.

Solution

  • After some Try and Error I have found a reliable way to load custom Fonts with a local CSS.

    1. Add your Font to the App...make sure that the file is targeted properly to the Application

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    2. Then add your Font to yourApp-Info.plist

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    3. Run NSLog(@"Available fonts: %@", [UIFont familyNames]); To check which name the font/fontfamily has for the System...

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    4. Copy that name and use them in your CSS...@font-face is not needed

    body {
    font-family:"Liberation Serif";
}