Monday, January 23rd, 2006
Anti-aliased fonts (antialiased) in Plucker and PalmOS
In post comments on the current status of Plucker and Sunrise, Joanra commented that one of the functions that Plucker is agardecía of autoscroll and installing fonts. In his day he had seen the option to use user sources, but had not thought much about it, so I decided to investigate, and I was surprised how well the texts are smoothed with a fountain.
Plucker supports antialiasing at their sources. We just have to convert any source Truetype we have on the computer, using FontConverter, and install it on your Palm. Plucker will read even if installed on the memory card, so space is no problem. However, we can save the whole mess to make the sources, if we choose to use the fonts BitStream Vera, already converted, we can download it here.
The same document with normal font and font Bitsream Vera
Bitstream Vera is a source of free distribution. Linux users will know her, because it is used by default in the environment Gnome. The catch is how the lyrics are much milder, with no jagged edges. Also, If you look, the text in italics italics is really not the ugly under Plucker does with the normal source, in the absence of specific italic typeface. The downside is that it takes a little longer to draw the screen, but not something that is annoying.
I like to use small fonts for comfortable reading. Therefore I recommend the source "Vera Serif 12 OS5 + r", which is what appears in the catch. The explanation of the filenames is:
- Vera Vera Sans is without tails and decorations on the letters. La Vera Serif it takes, you could say it's more baroque. Choose one or the other is a function of taste.
- The 12 is the size. The higher the number, the larger point.
- OS5 indicates that it is only for high resolution. Any place which include all resolutions, but the file size is larger. Choose according to your Palm has high resolution (320 × 320, 480 × 320) or standard (160 × 160).
- Finally the final-r indicates that the font supports all orientations, ie, worth to see text rotated 90 degrees. If not we will rotate the text, which does not support this option has a smaller file.
The custom fonts can be used both in the list of Plucker documents as the document itself. To select from the menu of the program go to "Font and Layout ..." and choose "User-loaded font, and we want to use drop-down list.
And if you like how smoothed fonts look on the Palm, you might be interested FontSmoother, a hack that lets you use a smoothed source in any text on PalmOS. Payment is, but it looks very spectacular.
It really is a delight to read texts in Plucker with a source so pretty. In the comments as always you can recommend other sources uséis, or anything related to the topic.
By: Mark Gonzalez Troyes in Palm Tips
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Very good way to get the most out of Plucker! A greeting.
Thanks Joanra,
Plucker is an excellent program. Every day I wonder more what it is customizable.
I had problems with timing and found that the problem is:
WARNING: There may be a problem of overwriting the database. Backing up the database Vera Serif 12 OS5 + R on the C: \ Program Files \ palmOne \ ricard \ Backup \ Vera_Serif_12_OS5__R.PRC. The file contained data from the database Vera Serif 12 OS5 + r.
Probably has to do with the name but not how to uninstall vera_serif sources to start again.
I would appreciate an idea.
Greetings
Hi Ricardo. In my E2 have that source with the name "Vera Serif 12 OS5 + r.prc. You can search using the file manager Filez free.
That message seems to indicate that you've installed. Surely it is not already in the PDA and you can use in Plucker?
One suggestion out of this problem is that to save space but you can install that file on the SD card. If you use the copy to QuickInstall "Palm / Launcher" inside the card, and Plucker uses it without problems from there.
Indeed it was duplicated (not why) and that was the problem. Plucker uninstall and reinstall it and now goes well.
Thank you,
the link fails and can not get the source Vera Serif 12 OS5 + r. anyone can help me.
thanks.
Wow, you're right, while I find another link to sources that test the sources offered here for example.
Then we have another place to download the sources: Toro's Blog. Thank you!
HOlas,
I watched several post on the net post where they say q put anti-aliasing fonts in a Z22 someone can corroborate that? porq no wonder eh q be able to see the AA sources plucker.
Greetings
Hello Mark. Although this post is quite old, I doubt I'd like to solve. Some time ago I use the Vera Sans font in Plucker and I think is the most readable and pretty there. I have sources for Vera Fonts4OS5 but not look as good. Could you convert the font to Vera exclusive Plucker or iSilo format Fonts4OS5? Thanks