Sharp Zaurus SL-C3000 Instruction Manual page 23

my Zaurus SL-C3000 and SL-C3100
lcfont
fixed
helvetica (same as mico-unicodefonts-helvetica_1.5.0-1_arm.ipk)
micro
smallsmooth
smoothtimes
Unfortunately, the Japanese character mapping has some overlaps and it is not always possible to
correctly map some extended characters in the latin character maps. Unicode fonts help a bit in this
aspect. However, many fonts do not have all the unicode characters which results in little square
boxes being displayed. It is essential to have a font which has all the unicode characters fully and
correctly mapped, however, such a font will use over 1MB of memory for each font size.
The following fonts get very close to that, however, the unifont only has size 16.
unismall_1.0.0_arm.ipk
unifont_1.0-1_arm.ipk
Having fonts that contain as many character sets as possible is a good start, however, it also
depends on the application whether it uses unicode and can extract the right character out of the
fonts and display them. Some fonts are also missing details for screen rotation and thus will look
garbled when the screen is rotated. Make sure you install the rotated font also if you find the font
garbled on rotation.
I have added the following extra fonts:
unicodefonts-verdana_1.5.0-3_arm.ipk
mico-unicodefonts-georgia_1.5.0-2_arm.ipk
mico-unicodefonts-utopia_1.5.0-1_arm.ipk
vga-console-font_1.0-1_arm.ipk
fonts-bitstream-vera-sans-mono-50_1.1_arm.ipk
fonts-bitstream-vera-sans-mono-75_1.1_arm.ipk
FreeSerifFont_20031008_all.ipk
FreeSansFont_20031008_all.ipk
FreeMonoFont_20031008_all.ipk
misaki8_0.04_arm.ipk
naga10_0.02_arm.ipk
shnm12_0.03_arm.ipk
shnm14_0.03_arm.ipk
shnm16_0.05_arm.ipk
ayu18_0.02_arm.ipk
Note: The unicodefonts-verdana_1.5.0-3_arm.ipk is a repackaged version of
mico-unicodefonts-verdana_1.5.0-2_arm.ipk with a rotatable font set.
These fonts are for the default Qtopia deskop and applications. X/Qt and Pocketworkstation use a
different set of fonts. The Qtopia fonts are stored in /opt/QtPalmtop/lib/fonts. Zaurus fonts use the
Trolltech's QT Prerendered Format (QPF). If you want to make your own additional fonts, then you
can convert fonts to Zaurus fonts by using a utility called makeqpf-arm which is provided by
Trolltech.
lcfont is the default system font used with the Japanese system, ie when your locale is set to ja
which is what your Zaurus is set to by default. However, Qtopia defaults to helvetica if it can't find
the font it needs.
When generating fonts, you will need to generate two versions, one for portrait mode and one for
landscape. The qpf font for the rotated screen has t10 appended to the filename.
Here are some sample steps to convert the arial.ttf font to a size 16 qpf in landscape and portrait
mode. Doing this may result your Zaurus being locked up, and you definately have to reboot your
Zaurus afterwards so make sure you save any open files before doing the following:
# mkdir -p /hdd3/build/lib/fonts
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