Or download from PalmGear NDM Pilot Font Tool
(buy it or play with a mouse).
It's able to convert any of a million existing Windows TTF
into Pilot PDB, HackMaster PDB, BIN fonts... of desired sizes.
Peter
Danko Radic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9812@palm-dev-forum...
>
>
> Ok, I'm sorry to see that nobody answers and I know that there are some
> font masters here being much more familiar with this stuff than me...
>
> So, how to create your own font in few words:
>
> 1) Download some font creating utility (I used xFONT - it's very simple
> and free) and create text output file containing your font definition.
> Name it "font.txt". It's an input file for PilRC.
>
> 2) Fetch PilRC from Aaron Ardiri (you'll find his sddress, he's posting to
> this group often).
>
> 3) Now you have to compile your font by PilRC to get binary to include
> into your CodeWarrior project. So, create some tmp directory containing
> pilrc.exe, cygwin1.dll and font.txt. Now create text file containing line
>
> FONT ID 1000 FONTID 128 "font.txt"
>
> and name it "font.res" (input for PilRC). Now from DOS prompt type
>
> pilrc font.res
>
> and you should have your binary as output (#!?something#&.bin). Rename
> that to "font.bin" and copy it into your CW project directory.
>
> 4) Create text file containing line
>
> read 'Font' (100) "font.bin";
>
> and name it "font.r". Include that file into your CW project and make sure
> that .r files are handled by REZ. Palm REZ should do the rest.
>
> 5) Now, you can use APIs to access your font:
>
> #define myFont ((FontID)129)
>
> FontPtr fontP;
> VoidHand fontH;
>
> fontH=DmGetREsource('Font',100);
> fontP=MemHandleLock(fontH);
> FntDefineFont(myFont,fontP);
>
> etc, etc, etc.....
>
>
>
> It's all documented in PilRC documentation, and PalmOS >=3.0 API reference
> books, so consult that refs and OS >=3.0 header files in order to
> understand meanings of fntCustomBase, resource ID's etc... and to correct
> my eventual errors that might have occured because I wrote this story
> directly from my memory.
>
> Regards,
>
> -DR
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Ole Grossklaus wrote:
>
> > Hello Douglas,
> >
> > I have just learnd a couple days ago that it is avail by using
hackmaster
> > and FontHack 123 V2
> > With this you can define new fonts for individual apps or the entire
palm.
> > (to be found at www.palmgear.com)
> >
> > Fonts are then active as replacements for the 7 standard fonts.
> >
> > The font definitions are made in PDB files that you can hotsync down to
the
> > Palm.
> >
> > FontViewer and FontEditos are avail as well. Here a list of references I
> > got:
> > - FontEdit1.2
> > - FontHack123
> > - Alpha Fonts (comes with 44 different Font PDB files - great !)
> >
> > Alternatively you may define your font resource and link it into your
app
> > but I don't have any info on how to do that.
> >
> > Hope that is of some help
> > Ole
> >
> > Gordon, Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im
> > Newsbeitrag: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > I've seen a couple of Palm apps that use a font that is smaller than
> > what's
> > > standard in the OS. Does anyone know if a font like this is available
> > > somewhere in a form that I could build it into my own app and use it?
> > >
> > > Doug Gordon
> > > GHCS Software
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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