LoadImageFont does work, but you need to pass the exact path of the font file, eg. "C:\Windows\Fonts\Verdana.ttf" in order for it to work.
This currently isn't very useful as the absolute path will vary from system-to-system, so I believe Mark and/or Skid are working on getting the font-loader to search common paths as well.
This currently isn't very useful as the absolute path will vary from system-to-system, so I believe Mark and/or Skid are working on getting the font-loader to search common paths as well.