Custom font in a Cocoa application

Question

I know you can customize fonts by using Interface Builder and selecting a font. However, I\'m curious if I can use a custom font that\'s not included by default on systems.

Answer 1

Here is the example for Mac App custom font loading.

NSString *fontFilePath = [[[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"/fonts"];
fontsURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:fontFilePath];
if(fontsURL != nil)
{
    OSStatus status;
    FSRef fsRef;
    CFURLGetFSRef((CFURLRef)fontsURL, &fsRef);
    status = ATSFontActivateFromFileReference(&fsRef, kATSFontContextLocal, kATSFontFormatUnspecified, 
                                              NULL, kATSOptionFlagsDefault, NULL);
    if (status != noErr)
    {
        errorMessage = @"Failed to acivate fonts!";
        goto error;
    }
}