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mogwai YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 13	TTF Fonts problem Nov 22nd, 2007, 2:23pm   When I try to loadFont("arial.ttf"), i get "Could not load font arial.ttf. Make sure that the font has been copied to the data folder of your skstch" message. However, the font is in data folder, and for example AmericanTypewriter-24.vlw works fine. Where seems to be the problem?

milc Junior Member Offline Posts: 52	Re: TTF Fonts problem Reply #1 - Nov 22nd, 2007, 8:58pm   Go to Tools->Create Font menu. you should see a window that you can choose areal font and its size..etc. then it aitomatically creates .vlw areal font and put it in your data folder. Processing simply doesn't support any other type of font extensions.

mogwai YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 13	Re: TTF Fonts problem Reply #2 - Nov 22nd, 2007, 9:20pm   Geez. Thanks a lot. I should have clicked through IDE more

steven Full Member Offline Posts: 111

Re: TTF Fonts problem Reply #3 - Nov 22nd, 2007, 10:52pm   There is also the possibility of using native fonts (fonts that are commonly installed on all operating systems ie: Arial, Verdana... basic web fonts. Quote: For most renderers, Processing displays fonts using the .vlw font format, which uses images for each letter, rather than defining them through vector data. When hint(ENABLE_NATIVE_FONTS) is used with the JAVA2D renderer, the native version of a font will be used if it is installed on the user's machine.

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