Hopefully, someone will do eventually. If you thinking of storing fonts as vectors it might be even less efficient then glyphs.
The idea of TTF is having a font to look exactly how it will be printed (WYSIWYG), but it doesn't always work. Actually you can use raster fonts as well, but your program has to be smart enough to figure out the actual glyph width, so that your text should look like a variable width: I wonder if standard Palm font engine works like that, if not it should be an easy fix. M. -----Original Message----- From: Max Bian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 30 November 2001 4:10 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: RE: Large Custom Fonts - Code and Examples 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. > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please > see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
