A comprehensive list of fonts is installed on iOS devices and is available for use directly within your AIR for iOS app.
This recipe will take you through the steps required to create a text field that uses a device font.
From the book's accompanying code bundle, open chapter7\recipe1\recipe.fla
into Flash Professional. The FLA's stage is empty but its AIR for iOS settings have already been applied, saving you the time and effort when you build and deploy it to a device.
Perform the following steps to take advantage of a device font:
Using the Text Tool (T), draw a text field on the stage.
Enter Flash iOS Apps Cookbook into the text field.
From the Properties panel, ensure that Classic Text and Dynamic Text are selected from the two top-most drop-down boxes.
Position the text field at (21,52). Set its width and height to 278 and 240 respectively.
Expand the CHARACTER section within the Properties panel. Set the Family drop-down to...