iphone webview dynamic font support

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Published on 2010-05-28T14:14:54Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 14:22 UTC
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Friends, I am trying to build a simple iphone application to view a local webpage that uses dynamic fonts. The url is www.eenadu.net. I have just a single view based application and inserted a webview into the view and implementing the webviewdelegate in viewcontroller. The site uses ttf/eot fonts that are dynamically downloadable by browser from http://www.eenadu.net/eenadu.ttf or http://www.eenadu.net/EENADU0.eot.

Here is what I am doing in the code by doing some research:

Code:

( void ) loadFont { 

    NSString *fontPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"eenadu" ofType:@"ttf"];
    CGDataProviderRef fontDataProvider = CGDataProviderCreateWithFilename([fontPath UTF8String]);

    // Create the font with the data provider, then release the data provider. customFont =
    CGFontCreateWithDataProvider(fontDataProvider); 
    CGDataProviderRelease(fontDataProvider);

    fontPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"eenadu" ofType:@"eot"];
    fontDataProvider = CGDataProviderCreateWithFilename([fontPath UTF8String]);

    // Create the font with the data provider, then release the data provider. customFont =
    CGFontCreateWithDataProvider(fontDataProvider); 
    CGDataProviderRelease(fontDataProvider);
}

(void) viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];

    [self loadFont];

    [webView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor whiteColor]]; 
    NSString *urlAddress = @"http://www.eenadu.net/"; 
    NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlAddress]; 
    NSURLRequest *requestObj = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url]; 
    [webView loadRequest:requestObj];     

}

I see that the page loads however doesn't display the font. Please help.

Also, For loadFont, I have included the fonts in the build with right names and took care of the case as well.

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