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| Topic: | Pronto Font This thread has 9 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Wednesday August 8, 2001 at 08:50 |
B Turk Historic Forum Post |
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Just curious, but has anyone tried renaming a different true type font to Pronto.ttf and seen how the Pronto and Prontoedit react. (Had this thought at work and may try tonight!)
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| OP | Post 2 made on Wednesday August 8, 2001 at 11:06 |
Wade Carpenter Historic Forum Post |
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No. But I have added other ttf fonts in the pronto.ini file. They will work in the program and in the emulator but has mass failure in the pronto unit. I guess the pronto has all of the fonts preprogrammed into it and it just recalls them. When it sees one it doesn't know, if goes to a default pronto font.
I think doing it your way will result in a similar failure, but it is always worth a try!
SanMan
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| OP | Post 3 made on Wednesday August 8, 2001 at 13:00 |
Andrea Whitlock Historic Forum Post |
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You cannot download a font to the physical Pronto. It only has that one font in it (and only certain point sizes, which escape me at the moment).
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| OP | Post 4 made on Wednesday August 8, 2001 at 13:41 |
Wade Carpenter Historic Forum Post |
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I don't see why the pronto has to view the fonts as "fonts". I know it would take more memory, but if a user used a font other than pronto, it would be really nice if pronto would simply interpret that as part of the button icon. And if it were the pronto font, then it would be the pronto font.
I know you wouldn't be able to edit the text unless it was a "font" but it would still be an interesting idea, at least i think so.
SanMan
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| OP | Post 5 made on Wednesday August 8, 2001 at 15:47 |
MrKlaatu Historic Forum Post |
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You can use a TEXT BOX in a .bmp, and use any font you want --For That Particular Button/Image--.
MIKE
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| OP | Post 6 made on Wednesday August 8, 2001 at 19:05 |
Peter Dewildt Historic Forum Post |
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Wade, if the Pronto could download fonts, it would be breaching copyright.
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| OP | Post 7 made on Wednesday August 8, 2001 at 21:39 |
kabster Historic Forum Post |
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| OP | Post 8 made on Thursday August 9, 2001 at 11:06 |
Martin Taylor-Brown Historic Forum Post |
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?????????
There are 100's of fonts which are copywrite free. Philips to TOO lazy to bother with the coding. They would rather that talented amateurs sorted the problems rather than employ expensive IT staff.
'nuff said.
MTB
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| OP | Post 9 made on Thursday August 9, 2001 at 11:30 |
Anthony Historic Forum Post |
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There is also the fact that fonts take up memory, the original Pronto only had 380K (usable). How many fonts before there would be no more place for your CCF?
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| OP | Post 10 made on Thursday August 9, 2001 at 19:28 |
Peter Dewildt Historic Forum Post |
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And the code for drawing fonts from their TrueType definition is also enormous in size. Alternatively, they would have to convert them to fixed size in ProntoEdit and download the font images which would also take a lot of memory.
Having said all that, it would nice if Philips added one or two more fonts, more sizes, and also provide the symbols in the samne sizes as the regular characters.
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