AFAIK, it's not legal. Many years ago, when we started our Palm OS product, we were able to license them from Palm. This was in 2000. I don't know who you would ask today.
>The font's themselves are Mac NFNTs. This is a well known format and some >of the tools that work with fonts can convert to/from mac NFNT. This is an >older bitmap format. If you can find the fonts in the ROM, you can extract >them to a flat file with PRCExplorer. Do some magic to get them into MacOS >resource fork format, and them convert to true type. It maybe ugly, but it >should work. > >The real question will be "is it legal"? Who owns the rights to those >fonts? > >-E > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Stadin, Benjamin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 2:48 PM >> To: Palm Developer Forum >> Subject: re: Standard Palm fonts on Windows? >> >> >> > Do you know a tool to convert Palm standard fonts to Windows fonts >> > (TTF)? Or are the standard fonts available somewhere? >> > >> > Regards >> > Benjamin Stadin >> >> >> I know this isn't usual. But does anyone have a suggestion >> for this? From Windows to Palm fonts seems easy, but what's >> the other way around? I want my application that generates >> text databases to have the same text layout like on the Palm >> (only the 4 standard latin Palm fonts will be used (normal, >> normal bold, large, large bold)). >> >> Thanks for any suggestions >> Benjamin Stadin >> -- >> For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or >> to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ >> >> >> > > >-- >For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to >unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
