There is a tool on palm gear which will produce a PILRC compatible text file
from a Windows font. You can then compile the text file into a binary NFNT
resource, which you can include in your project (if you use CW, you would
use an RC file to include the font).
You do not need to include a hack to use user fonts. With newer PalmOS
versions there are system calls to install fonts. With older versions you
can patch a font in a draw with it. The source and accompanying text files
for fonthack123 are a good place to start.
-jjf
-----Original Message-----
From: Prasad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 2:42 PM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Re: How to include windows TrueTypeFont in a palm application
Mr Ben
thanks alot for ur help. By the way i need a .pft file for a a Serief
type font, which i can include in my app as a resource and read that font. I
dont want include any font hacks or font pdbs with my app. is there any tool
to convert a TTF to PFT. If i go for a own font how can i add characters in
a font editor(fontedit from sergim.net) from MS Paint. plz help me if aware
of this
thanks again
Prasad N Bathini
#102, Siri Mansion
141, Sidhartha Nagar
Hyderabad-500038
Home Ph: +91-040-3712235
----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Combee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum
To: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 1:41 AM
Subject: Re: How to include windows TrueTypeFont in a palm application
> "Prasad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:23734@palm-dev-forum...
> >
> > Hi all,
> > How to include windows TrueTypeFont in a palm application. any help
> will
> > be great
>
> Using TrueType directly isn't going to happen on the Palm, at least not
> without a lot of work porting one of the free renderers, and even then,
the
> Palm doesn't have enough speed or memory for it to work well.
>
> If you only need one size of a font, then just use a Windows paint program
> to capture the bitmaps for all the characters you need, then use a font
> editor to make your own custom font. There aren't too many font
editors --
> PalmGear HQ only showed two real matches for "font editor":
>
> "Pilot Font Editor" at http://www.sergem.net/fontedit/Default.htm
>
> "Handy Pilot Font Editor" at http://www.sochi.com/~sandy/fe/
>
>
>
>
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