Monday, January 23, 2006
Sources smoothed (antialiased) in Plucker and PalmOS
In the post comments on the current state of Plucker and Sunrise, joanra commented that one of the functions that most of agardecía Plucker and is the autoscroll installed fonts. In his day had seen the option to use sources of user, but had not thought about it more, so I decided to investigate, and I was surprised how well they are the source texts with a softened.
Plucker supports antialiasing at their sources. We just have to convert any TrueType font that we have on the computer, using FontConverter, installation at the Palm. Plucker the read even if they are installed on the memory card, so space is no problem. However, we can save the whole mess to turn to sources, if we choose to use the sources Bitstream Vera, have already been converted, we can download it here.
The same document with normal font and font Bitsream Vera
Bitstream Vera is a source of free distribution. Users of the Linux know, because that is what is used by default in the Gnome environment. In the catch is is how the lyrics are much more gentle, without jagged edges. Also, if you fijáis, the text in italics italics is really not that the ugly accordance with the source Plucker normal, in the absence of a specific font in italics. The downside is that it takes a little more drawn into the screen, but it is not something that is annoying.
I like to use small fonts to read comfortably. That's why I strongly recommend to the source "Vera Serif 12 OS5 r", which always appears in the capture. An explanation of the file names is as follows:
- Vera is Vera Sans, no tail and ornaments in the letters. The 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. A larger number, the greater the letter.
- OS5 indicates that it is only for high resolution. Any place which include all resolutions, but the file size is larger. Choose your Palm depending have high-resolution (320x320, 480x320) displays support or standard (160x160).
- Finally, the r-end indicates that the source supports all orientations, namely that goes to see texts rotated 90 degrees. If we are not going to turn the text, which does not support this option has a smaller file size.
The custom fonts can be used both in the list of documents in Plucker as the document itself. To select, from the menu of the program we're going to "Font and layout ..." and choose "User-loaded font," and we will use the drop-down list.
And if you liked how fonts are smoothed into the Palm, you might be interested FontSmoother, a hack that allows you to use a source softened in all texts of PalmOS. Is payment, but it is very spectacular.
It really is a delight to read the texts in Plucker with a fountain so beautiful. In comments as ever you can recommend other sources that uséis, or anything related to the topic.
By: Mark Gonzalez Troyes in Tricks
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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 am surprised that most everything is customizable.
I have had problems with the synch, and I discovered that the problem is:
WARNING: There may be a problem of overwriting the database. Performing backup of the database Vera Serif 12 OS5 R in the file C: \ Program Files \ palmOne \ ricard \ Backup \ Vera_Serif_12_OS5__R.PRC. The file contained data from the database Vera Serif OS5 r 12.
Probably has to do with the name but do not like to uninstall the sources vera_serif to get started again.
I would appreciate an idea.
Greetings
Hello Ricardo. I have in my E2 that source with the name "Vera Serif 12 OS5 r.prc." You can search using the file manager free Filez.
That message seems to indicate that you have already installed. Surely that is not already in your PDA and you can use it in Plucker?
One suggestion out of this problem, which is to save space but you can install that file into the SD card. If you use QuickInstall copied to the "Palm / Launcher" inside the card, and uses the Plucker smoothly from there.
Indeed it was a duplicate (not because) 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. someone can help me.
thanks.
Oops, you're right, while another link to find the sources test sources offered here for instance.
Well, we already have another place to download the sources: Toro's Blog. Thank you!
Holas,
I was looking at several post-post by the network where they say q put anti-aliasing fonts in a Z22 someone can corroborate that? How no wonder eh q made sources are the AA in Plucker.
Greetings