Eric Cloninger wrote: >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. >
Thank you very much for this info. When I compile a NFNT .ro resource object using PilRc/Metrowerks for Palm, is this the same as a mac resource fork? > >The real question will be "is it legal"? Who owns the rights to those >fonts? > Fortunately, yes ;-). It's not allowed to use other Palm Windows ttf true type fonts if, they already exist. But it's allowed to convert them from a bitmap format to a true type format (true types are copyrightable, bitmaps are not). http://www.faqs.org/faqs/fonts-faq/part2/ "First, the short answer in the USA: Typefaces are not copyrightable; bitmapped fonts are not copyrightable, but scalable fonts are copyrightable. Authorities for these conclusions follow." Benjamin > >-E > -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
