Font files provide the pixel patterns used for drawing characters. EPOC Release 5 defines a new plug-in architecture, called the Open Font System, to provide support for arbitrary font formats; these may be outline, vector, bitmap, etc. In particular, this lays the foundation for full support of scaleable fonts.
However, until font plug-ins have been released, developers should continue to work with EPOCs own font store file format (.gdr
).
Two methods can be used to produce a .gdr
file:
.gd
text file, see Font definition file. This file type can be compiled into a font store file, using the fnttran
tool..fsc
), can be converted into a .gd
file using the fontcomp
tool. The .gd
file can then be compiled into the .gdr
file using fnttran
. Fonts in Adobes Bitmap Distribution Format (.bdf
files) can also be used by fnttran
directly, see Bitmap distribution format files.The font tool reference material is contained in the topics: