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Reading a font from file and making it available to Cocoa

This is another programming related post.
Say you have a true type font that’s not part of the OS font set in a file. You’ve read the contents of the file into memory and now want to make it available to Cocoa. How?

Posted 06 February 2009 † Dmitry § coding ‡ Comments (0) °

Cocoa Text System Sample

Cocoa is pretty amazing. Here’s a quick sample that does a simple text layout (with styles!) inside a NSTextView. This is an AwakeFromNib method that was instantiated inside Interface Builder and connected to Main Window’s Content area.

Posted 21 October 2008 † Dmitry § coding § software development ‡ Comments (0) °