I'm somewhat confused about the different font formats I encountered on my palm so far. There's NFNT and nfnt. Then there is FontBucket. And then comes PalmReader with his own fonts that are not documented at all and are only used by PalmReader. Did I miss any other font formats?
The reason PalmReader has its own font format is so it can support text anti-aliasing (normal Palm fonts are monochrome bitmaps, which can't be antialiased at all).
Embedding fonts in my application is probably like statically linking my apps. There's duplicate data that takes up precious space on the device. FontBucket is probably what comes closest to a desktop computer's fonts-folder and the fonts don't need to be embedded into the application.
Really, this size of fonts is quite trivial, unless you have a large quantity of them. And how many programs need a large quantity of fonts? A word processor, and... that's about it.
What do you people think about this? Did I miss any alternatives? How do you handle fonts in your applications?
Well, what bothers *me* is that creating a high-density bitmap font requires a corresponding low-density font with the same dimensions. When making fonts that aren't fricken huge (like the default fonts are), you don't want the dimensions the same. So I make separate low- and high-density fonts, and I have to make an all-white stub to go with the high density one. Ugh.
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