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There is an open issue right now in cocos2d-x, but it has been pushed back a couple of times. There is a way to use the grskia library to create a typeface with a filename instead of the bundled fonts, but it requires a brave coder that can implement that :-)
I'm one of the people pushing that back, and I"m really sorry for taking so long. Things just got incredibly busy and I haven't had much time. I don't really want to give a time estimate again and then fail to deliver. Although if my code was added to 2.0, then TTF fonts should work. They get cut off, and anti-aliasing is bad, but they display. Do they work on Playbook? My code was for the 1.x branch of Cocos2d-x, so it's possible it didn't make it into 2.0.
My code was accepted into the gles20 branch, so building the latest version should allow you to use custom fonts. Apparently there are still some minor rendering issues. I'll try to take a look at those when I get a chance.
I'm usually sticking to use the latest release version, so it could be some time before I start using that branch.