I created my own font using FontForge for use in my iOS application. When I use a font in my application, kerning is not applied. It is known that kerning is not applicable to UITextView. I use this in UILabel and UITextField, so this is not a problem. I am targeting iOS 5.0.
I can view the font in Font Book and Pages and see that kerning works. However, kerning does not work in Word for Mac. I have enabled kerning in Word, but it does not work. I don't really care about the Word. First of all, I want this to work in iOS.
I created the font, both the .otf and .ttf fonts, and many FontForge options for creating a font set. The options I played with are Apple, OpenType and OT / Old Style and OT / DSIG. Pages will correctly apply kerning to all combinations of font creation options, except when only OpenType is checked. The font book will show kerning only when Apple is verified, and nothing more. I read some comments on other forums on how to make fonts work with Word, but not something specific about kerning and iOS.
Anyone has experience:
1) having successfully created a kernel font in OS X using FontForge for an iOS app?
OR
2) successfully creating a grain font in OS X using FontForge that works in Word? . This may come close to me, even if you had no experience with fonts in iOS.
I have a trial version of Glyphs that I played with, but I don’t want to switch to another font program to do this.
Any help would be appreciated.
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