It seems strange to me that nobody uses freetype for palmos applications.  It
will be nice if freetype can be ported to palm.  The vector ponts scales much
better.

Max
--- Doug McFadyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Sorry Dug
> > That was just a different way of understanding 
> > "other than using bitmaps". For me it meant
> > "without glyphs", but probably 
> > I misunderstood it.
> 
> Not a problem at all.  Actually, I was teasing you a bit, too! ;)
> 
> I think I also focused on his statement, "I'm a bit of a newbie when it
> comes to PalmOS".  Someone who's not a vetran programmer may not think of
> raster fonts as actually being bitmaps.  He's probably mulling over using
> WinDrawBitmap() vs WinDrawChars(), so he's thinking BITMAPS vs FONTS.  At
> least that was my guess.  Also, if he had to use WinDrawBitmap(), he'd have
> to create 10 bitmap resources for each of the big digits he wants to
> display.
> 
> Choices, choices! :)
> Doug.
> 
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