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- FontHack is great in that it allows you to specify an alternate
- font to use for each of the Palm standard fonts (Standard, Bold,
- Large) on a per application basis. Unfortunately you don't
- know what the font will look like until after you select it
- for use. AAAFontView lets you preview fonts two ways.
-
- The first way presents a list of all files on the Palm
- device with a type of 'Font'. When you select one of
- the listed fonts, the text beneath the list will be
- displayed using that font. This enables you to get
- a quick look at each available font. So far, though,
- I only handle one font per file -- some files have
- multiple fonts in them. I will be handling those in
- the next release.
-
- The second way is to present a form with text drawn in each
- of the standard fonts (standard, bold, large) so that you
- can see the effect of the combination of fonts you have
- selected in FontHack.
-
- The sample text will now be remembered as an unsaved
- preference, but you can only modify it in the lists view.
-
- You can now delete the fonts you do not want to keep, so
- you don't have to resort to an external db management
- utility like ZarfCatalog ... but I can not yet tell whether
- a font is in use by FontHack123, so be careful what you
- delete. If you delete a font currently being used by
- FontHack123 your Palm device will become unstable.
-
- The name of this application begins with "AAA" in order to
- make it conveniently near the top of the app list presented
- by FontHack (right below "All"). Thus you can set the fonts
- you want to try in FontHack, then swap over to AAA Font Viewer
- to see the results, then swap back & try again fairly easily.
-
- For the future:
- fix [std][bold][large] font selectors
- to show the Palm ROM std/bold/large
- fonts instead of the ones selected by
- FontHack123
- add "details" to list view (show font info)
- support cut/copy/paste
- support scroll bars on text fields
- select fonts for FontHack directly from AFvw
-
-
- -Richard M. Hartman
- RHartman10@aol.com
- http://www.catslair.com/tech/palm/
-
-
- (ok, the Palm section of my web site isn't really there
- yet, but it will be some day ... in the meantime if you
- enjoy figure skating, take a look at some of the pics
- we have up in the rest of the site!)
-
-
- History:
-
- 16-May-2000: v1.2
- fixed crash when deleting last installable font on the device
- (I really should've caught this in v1.1, but I went for the
- quick-n-dirty fix there :-P )
-
- 1-May-2000: Sixth release (v1.1)
- fixed crash if run when no installable fonts on device
- If you do not have any fonts, try downloading the Alpha Fonts
- package from http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?prodID=6091
-
- 24-Apr-2000: Fifth release (v1.0)
- show multiple fonts per font db using same
- convention as FontHack123-2
- sort font list (note: FontHack123-2 does not sort
- it's list, so you'll still have to hunt for
- the right one there)
- use "largeBold" font instead of "large" for 3rd
- font selector to match Palm apps. notepad,
- todo, etc use std/large/largebold as font
- choices, not std/large/bold
-
- 31-Mar-2000: Fourth release (v0.7)
- up/down keys now change font selection
- display font width & height when selected
- "small fonts" problems fixed (thanks go to Ken Krugler)
-
- 30-Mar-2000: Third release (v0.5)
- Added ability to delete font database
- Added std/bold/large font selectors
- note: these are subject to the
- FontHack123 substitutions
-
- 28-Mar-2000: Second release (v0.4)
- Added list view
- Remember sample text
-
- 25-Feb-2000: Initial release (v0.1)
-