Bizarre issue with adding basic custom font for app

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mrDavid BTMods.com Posts: 3936 Reg: May 21, 2011 San Diego, CA 51,910	confirm \| cancel 01/16/15 10:54 PM (9 years ago) Bizarre issue with adding basic custom font for app Hi hi everyone. Doing the basic BebasNeue.otf font for design menu, but app freezes as a black screen upon launch and debugger gets stuck at: "Listing custom fonts (UIAppFonts) listed in app's .plist..." Have not done anything special to project or added any other type of fonts, just doing the same basic thing I have always done a million times, LOL! Any ideas? p.s. target membership is set, and when I remove UIAppFonts from my plist, app works fine, just without the font! Thanks! mrDavid Title Comments Hi hi everyone. Doing the basic BebasNeue.otf font for design menu, but app freezes as a black screen upon launch and debugger gets stuck at: "Listing custom fonts (UIAppFonts) listed in app's .plist..." Have not done anything special to project or added any other type of fonts, just doing the same basic thing I have always done a million times, LOL! Any ideas? p.s. target membership is set, and when I remove UIAppFonts from my plist, app works fine, just without the font! Thanks! mrDavid

crazy android Aspiring developer Posts: 172 Reg: Oct 24, 2011 Las Vegas, Nv 9,920	01/16/15 10:59 PM (9 years ago) Had weird experience with by device settings today to with xcode Comments Had weird experience with by device settings today to with xcode

David @ buzztouch buzztouch Evangelist Posts: 6866 Reg: Jan 01, 2010 Monterey, CA 78,840	01/17/15 02:28 AM (9 years ago) Hard to say...I use custom fonts all the time. Things to check... --Make sure the font file is included in the projects resource bundle. This is different than the Target. To see this it's Targets > Copy Bundle Resources. The font file in your project should show up in this list. --Is the font file valid? Lots of cheezy "free font size" offer free downloads - that are bogus! Did you buy this font or snag it from a free font download site? A good test is to see if you can successfully add it to the MacOSX Font Book. Drag it into Font Book, does it add without errors? If it won't, that's your problem. Bogus fonts are well, bogus and all sorts of things go crazy. Comments Hard to say...I use custom fonts all the time. Things to check... --Make sure the font file is included in the projects resource bundle. This is different than the Target. To see this it's Targets > Copy Bundle Resources. The font file in your project should show up in this list. --Is the font file valid? Lots of cheezy "free font size" offer free downloads - that are bogus! Did you buy this font or snag it from a free font download site? A good test is to see if you can successfully add it to the MacOSX Font Book. Drag it into Font Book, does it add without errors? If it won't, that's your problem. Bogus fonts are well, bogus and all sorts of things go crazy.

mrDavid BTMods.com Posts: 3936 Reg: May 21, 2011 San Diego, CA 51,910	01/17/15 06:45 PM (9 years ago) Yup checked for both, was using a font I've always used (same file), ended up just redoing the entire project and all was well again - not the correct way to do it, but I had an unhappy client and had a timeline promise to keep, heh. Thanks for posting D, appreciate it. mrDavid Comments Yup checked for both, was using a font I've always used (same file), ended up just redoing the entire project and all was well again - not the correct way to do it, but I had an unhappy client and had a timeline promise to keep, heh. Thanks for posting D, appreciate it. mrDavid

mrDavid BTMods.com Posts: 3936 Reg: May 21, 2011 San Diego, CA 51,910	09/21/15 06:51 PM (8 years ago) This thread is at the top of the google search results for "UIAppFont buzztouch", so I figure a solution posted here, even though there was no interest, might be good. David Book was able to help me solve the issue (like the boss he is) with very little effort: 1. Go into your your project and find your /BT_Core/ folder. 2. Find your BT_device.m file, search around line 159ish for: "//show all the custom font's available in the project..." 3. Comment out that entire statement below along with the for loop (159ish to 172ish). Specifically: http://imgur.com/LANi0Bo That's it! You're good to go. This issue occurs when using custom fonts in iOS, but more specifically, using crappy fonts that are either corrupted or partially corrupted because of incompetent font makers. That's the nice version. LOL! Thanks David! mrDavid Comments This thread is at the top of the google search results for "UIAppFont buzztouch", so I figure a solution posted here, even though there was no interest, might be good. David Book was able to help me solve the issue (like the boss he is) with very little effort: 1. Go into your your project and find your /BT_Core/ folder. 2. Find your BT_device.m file, search around line 159ish for: "//show all the custom font's available in the project..." 3. Comment out that entire statement below along with the for loop (159ish to 172ish). Specifically: http://imgur.com/LANi0Bo That's it! You're good to go. This issue occurs when using custom fonts in iOS, but more specifically, using crappy fonts that are either corrupted or partially corrupted because of incompetent font makers. That's the nice version. LOL! Thanks David! mrDavid

David @ buzztouch buzztouch Evangelist Posts: 6866 Reg: Jan 01, 2010 Monterey, CA 78,840	09/21/15 08:51 PM (8 years ago) Sweet! Comments Sweet!

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