Re: creating small fonts on the fly?

2005-08-05 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Well I'd like it to work on all hi res OS5 devices and wanted to use it on all places font can be used regulary like in a field or button... If WinSetScalingMode works like this then they implemented in higher OS versions exactly what I need. I actually tried WinSetScalingMode on T2 before bu

Re: creating small fonts on the fly?

2005-08-05 Thread Russell Cagle
I might be misunderstanding you, but if you want to draw single-density fonts on a double-density screen you can turn off font scaling: WinSetScalingMode(kTextScalingOff); It only works on newer devices, i.e. on the T5 and not on the T3, but it's a quick way to do what you want while you w

Re: creating small fonts on the fly?

2005-08-05 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Thanks for your insight. So it is not possible to have a character in a hires font which has odd number of pixels due to the width table being always in in standard lores coordinates, correct? And there is no such thing as pure hires font with hires width table, correct? Well that really makes

Re: creating small fonts on the fly?

2005-08-05 Thread Vince Lee
>thanks for your valuable tips. I was looking for solution >to do it directly on the device without any conversion step >done on PC side. Is it possible to just directly copy font >resouces into new resource database, modify density bits and >then open and use those fonts? > >Frantisek I don'

Re: creating small fonts on the fly?

2005-08-04 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Hello Benjamin, thanks for your valuable tips. I was looking for solution to do it directly on the device without any conversion step done on PC side. Is it possible to just directly copy font resouces into new resource database, modify density bits and then open and use those fonts? Frantise

re: creating small fonts on the fly?

2005-08-04 Thread Stadin, Benjamin
I'm trying to do it the other way around (converting small palm fonts to windows fonts). I didn't find the time to continue yet but these tools may be also helpful for you. Have a look at PalmFontConv and PalmFOntCollector. http://sourceforge.net/projects/palmfontconv/ With Palm font collecor