Helvetica Neue and OSX development for Android

[GSA_DC]

Hi all.

Hope someone may have run into this already. I am trying to implement an Android app in OSX which uses Helvetica Neue and Helvetica Neue Bold. Livecode asks for ttf fonts for mobile deployment. In OSX Helvetica Neue is a dfont file. I don't have a ttf version. I thought that using a ttf version of the font in OSX instead of the dfont version would allow me to 'swap out' the font and allow it to show in Android so I got a hold of a ttf version to test (not entirely sure of copyright issues with this - it's a licensed font but some Helvetica Neue.ttf files were scattered on the internet - I would buy it if necessary). Problem is that OSX uses Helvetica Neue so it can't be temporarily disabled or removed so I can't use it - after compiling to Android it doesn't 'map' successfully. So it seems I have no way of creating an app with Helvetica Neue on Android.

Any workarounds?

Kind regards, Paul.

[jiml]

FreeSans?
https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/index.html

Helvetica Neue on top GNU FreeSans on bottom:


Jim Lambert

[GSA_DC]

I'll look into that. Thanks Jim!