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Everything Else => Sharp Zaurus => Model Specific Forums => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => C1000/3x00 Hardware => Topic started by: bolbit on October 04, 2005, 10:36:17 pm
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The default font for the sytem is "ldfont" in the C1000. Sharp PIM and texte editor use this font and i want to be able to use the accentuated characters (mainly for the mail soft) . i have tried to backup lcfont and create symbolic links with the verdana font, but there is a issue when the screen is rotated ...
is there a unicode font that match the lcfont characteristic (same size avaible, rotation ok, ...)
thanks,
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The default font for the sytem is "ldfont" in the C1000. Sharp PIM and texte editor use this font and i want to be able to use the accentuated characters (mainly for the mail soft) . i have tried to backup lcfont and create symbolic links with the verdana font, but there is a issue when the screen is rotated ...
is there a unicode font that match the lcfont characteristic (same size avaible, rotation ok, ...)
thanks,
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if you install the verdana package i built, it handles the rotation in any direction
have a look at my website, there is a link to the package
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Thanks, i have read your site very often and installed a verdana font that i have found somewhere (the pico font verdana was not eazy to find). i will download yours.
NOTE : most of the sharp soft seems to use in fact the helvetica font not the lcfont. lcfont seems to be use by kconsole and some other but few.
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must be blind : didn't see a link to your font. it is may to late. is it suppose to be in the font chapter of the "bible" :-).
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must be blind : didn't see a link to your font. it is may to late. is it suppose to be in the font chapter of the "bible" :-).
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oops, I seem to have forgotten to provide a link to the package. i will rectify that in the next update of the site.
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Thank you one more time now it's woking!.
PS : To switch from helvetica->verdana is the only solution is to remove the existing symb link and create new ones for helvetica->verdana ?? is there a way to tell Qtopia to use verdana from a configuration file, somewhere ?
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ahhh, thats my 50K doller question.
btw, you changed the font in your qtopia, how. Give some details.
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1-install verdana font from the "bible" (meanie's site)
2-Move the helvetiva*.* files from /home/QtPalmtop/lib/font somewhere as a backup
3 - link (ln -s) all the helvetica*.* font to the verdana_*.* font.
I'm not a linux guru, so i have done this one by one using a script :
the script looks like :
#!/bin/sh
ln -s verdana_100_50.qpf helvetica_100_50.qpf
ln -s verdana_100_50_t10.qpf helvetica_100_50_t10.qpf
ln -s verdana_100_50_t15.qpf helvetica_100_50_t15.qpf
ln -s verdana_100_50_t5.qpf helvetica_100_50_t5.qpf
ln -s verdana_100_50i.qpf helvetica_100_50i.qpf
...
i have attached it, if it could be usefull . Maybe all theses links could be done with only one instruction..?
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cool, any other fonts actually fit the bill for a good replacement?
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#!/bin/sh
cd /home/QtPalmtop/lib/fonts
for i in 'ls verdana*'
do
ln -s $i helvetica_'echo $i|cut -d_ -f2-'
done
or in one line:
for i in 'ls verdana*';do ln -s $i helvetica_'echo $i|cut -d_ -f2-';done
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I found that the deja vu fonts work very well on the Zaurus:
Dejavu sourceforge (http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page)
I was after a font that could display the Euro natively. I removed lcfont and helvetica and replaced them with dejavu sans and dejavu mono. I had to rename the dejavu serif fonts otherwise they were picked up as the default OS font - which didn't look as nice as the sans serif font.
These fonts are higher resolution than lcfont and look really sharp (excuse the pun).
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DejaVu will be also used in next OZ/Familiar as base font in OPIE.
BTW - does SharpROM does not allow to select default font? All those renames, symlinks...
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I found that the deja vu fonts work very well on the Zaurus:
Dejavu sourceforge (http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page)
I was after a font that could display the Euro natively. I removed lcfont and helvetica and replaced them with dejavu sans and dejavu mono. I had to rename the dejavu serif fonts otherwise they were picked up as the default OS font - which didn't look as nice as the sans serif font.
These fonts are higher resolution than lcfont and look really sharp (excuse the pun).
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exact instructions? I found ttf but not qpf?
Thanks
Bam
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thank meanie for the "one line instruction".
I will try the dejavu font too, if there is a way to get the qpf (cf last bam message).
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actually found the qpf files from the oz feed, thanks guys Perhaps this should be included in the how to doc's?
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Fonts in OZ feed are old version.
I could say "use OE to generate packages with QPF fonts"
or grab them from http://www.hrw.one.pl/_pliki/oe/files/ (http://www.hrw.one.pl/_pliki/oe/files/)
1.14 can garble screen - I have to generate newer ones but as nothing in OE use qpf fonts I put it on very low priority.
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I just used these - they looked great to me - I didn't bother getting the newer ones.
1.6 versions from sourceforge (http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Download)
As to earlier post - there doesn't seem to be any way of choosing a default font, but if you delete helvetica it picks up dejavu serif - if you rename dejavu serif it picks up deja vu sans. Seems to be some sort of name and font type based selection.
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dejavu fonts are brilliant, but scrambled on rotation, anyone got a set that does not do that? BTW these fonts are super clear, very nice
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dejavu fonts are brilliant, but scrambled on rotation, anyone got a set that does not do that? BTW these fonts are super clear, very nice
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If you install the fontname_fontsize_fontweight.qpf and _t10.qpf
e.g. dejavumono_140_80.qpf and dejavumono_140_80_t10.qpf
that should be both rotations. I occasionally see rotation problems, e.g. when running in low res compatibility mode pop up the keyboard - chars sometimes rotated. Other than that works fine both ways.
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actually found the qpf files from the oz feed, thanks guys Perhaps this should be included in the how to doc's?
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maybe you should volunteer to do it seriously, anyone can register and update the wiki. it is a little hassle having to register twice, once for the forum and once for the wiki, and also having to log in twice, but once you are registered you can update any wiki page in the howtos and add to them when you find something interesting that is missing there. More people should do this! I tried to copy my site to the wiki but it ended up being too much work having to maintain both. But I might enhance my script which generates the pdf file to sync with the wiki as well so I can automate updating the wiki as well and only need to maintain one set of files.
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As to earlier post - there doesn't seem to be any way of choosing a default font, but if you delete helvetica it picks up dejavu serif - if you rename dejavu serif it picks up deja vu sans. Seems to be some sort of name and font type based selection.
i didnt experience this....hmm
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actually found the qpf files from the oz feed, thanks guys Perhaps this should be included in the how to doc's?
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maybe you should volunteer to do it seriously, anyone can register and update the wiki. it is a little hassle having to register twice, once for the forum and once for the wiki, and also having to log in twice, but once you are registered you can update any wiki page in the howtos and add to them when you find something interesting that is missing there. More people should do this! I tried to copy my site to the wiki but it ended up being too much work having to maintain both. But I might enhance my script which generates the pdf file to sync with the wiki as well so I can automate updating the wiki as well and only need to maintain one set of files.
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yea, I will put something together, this weekend perhaps