I'm trying to change one of the TextFields in our app to use a device font. This is because the user can enter text into this field and we'd rather not embed a font containing every potential glyph (around 14,000 in Chinese). It'd be really useful to know if this is even remotely possible.
I turned off font embedding for that field and specified a font which I know to exist on the device but it fails to find the font on the device.
This works in the Editor, I can specify something like "Arial", non-embedded, and it'll find the font and render correctly.
Trying "Droid Sans" on the Android device fails.
I tried using Font.enumerateFonts(true) to see which fonts SF is aware of. In the editor this returns me a huge list of device fonts, as expected. On Android, just one font. None of the standard device fonts are available.
Is there any way I can achieve this? Should I look at creating a Font Provider (is this possible via Unity?)? Is there a workaround that allows me to render using a device font and apply the result to my movie? I considered rendering text to a texture and passing that back to the Actionscript but I've never had any success with ReplaceTexture.
Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated!
