swiz - HiRes Clié Fonts
This is finally a real set of HiResFonts
specially tuned for the use with a Clié. It requires FontHack 123 v4.0c. A
detailed manual on how to install the fonts is included.
Lubak's "Handera" fonts served me as a basis for
these fonts: more fonts by Lubak are here:
http://www.domino.sk/lubak
I changed many
symbols, and some of the letters, and improved the overall look.
swiz is only compatible with High Resolution (320x320p) Sony Cliés. If other companies release a handheld with HiRes it may or may not be compatible.
swiz features the following fonts:
-normal font (22p, narrow, very good readability)
-bold
font (22p, also narrow)
-large font (28p, specially
designed for Clie's)
-small font (16p,
very good readability, very much on one page, especially useful in NoteFields,
MemoPad, pedit...)
Before and After: swiz HiRes Fonts are
on the left. On the right, you see Sony's standard HiRes fonts. Please notice
that the first three Fonts have the same hight as before and therefore fit
perfectly for almost every application on Palm OS. Only the LargeBold Font is
now a Small Font instead. I chose this one to be the smaller one, since it is
not used very often.
-small (lowRes) font (14p, this looks almost the same as the first smallfont, but is really a lowRes font; it is specially designed for apps like DateBk5 (in ListView), iSilo, Planetarium, MiniCalc, McFile, and many more which can display those very small fonts; this one is much more readable)
iSilo lets you choose the small 14point font,
with norrow spaces. It's optimized for use with long text. The picture on the
right shows Sony's Small font.
Manual:
0. Preparation
0.a Check if
you have a HiRes Clié
. (If you don't you can stop reading this document, now.)
0.b Check if you have a
Hackmanager (e.g. Hackmaser,
Tealmaster, X-Master
) installed. X-Master is for free.
0.c Check if you have FontHack123 version 4.0c installed. If you don't,
get the newest version from palmgear.com for free.
1. Installation
Install the
swiz##.pdb (where ## is the version number) file from
this swiz.zip file on your Clié, by unzipping it, and then double-clicking it on your
PC. When you sync
for the next
time, it will be installed on your Clié.
2.
Set up FontHack as following (also look at the graphics
below):
Font | will be replaced by: | hight | |
Standard |
swiz(0) | Standard LowRes Substitution Font | 11p |
Bold | swiz(0) | Standard LowRes Substitution Font | 11p |
Large | swiz(1) | small HiRes* Font | 14p |
LrgBold | swiz(2) | Small LowRes Substitution Font | 8p |
HRStandard | swiz(3) | Standard HiRes Font | 22p |
HRBold | swiz(4) | Bold HiRes Font | 22p |
HRLarge | swiz(5) | Large HiRes Font | 28p |
HRLrgBold | swiz(6) | Small HiRes Font | 16p |
* in applications like: DateBk5 (in ListView), iSilo, Planetarium, MiniCalc,
McFile, and many more;
of
course it also serves as the Large LowRes Substitution Font for the Large
HiRes Font
On
the Details screen of FontHack you will see two pulldown menus and a list. In
the list, select a font, so it has a blue background. Now choose the second
pulldown menu and select the right font. Select the next font in the list and
again choose the corresponding font in the pulldown menu. And so on. You will
have a list which shows the system fonts on the left and the replacing fonts on
the right. When you are ready, tap Savexit. For further details, consider
FontHack's manual.
3. Activate FontHack in your Hackmanager.
Explanation/Tips:
The first four fonts are only so called substitution fonts. They are required, so that the HiRes fonts work as they should. The third font is for apps, that can display smallFonts.
Your HiResFonts
will be as following: Std/Bold/Large fonts will be as the
name says.
LargeBold will really be a very nice smallFont,
smaller than all the others. Use this font in MemoPad, in pedit, in the
notefield of Datebook, DateBk5, in Bonsai; basically in every larger editField
on your Clié.
Please try to install the fonts this way. If you want to replace only one of your fonts by my fonts, you should never forget to also install the adequate lowRes font.
Please notice that in applications which don't support HiRes, my fonts are not very readable. This is because those Substitution Fonts need to have the same width as the HiRes Fonts. If it is an important application for you, you might want to consider to deinstall my fonts in only this app. This works great with FontHack.
So far, the largeFont is designed only for English and German language. If you want it for your language (i.e. all special signs) please contact me. If I get an email, I will speed up, if I don't get any, I might never add these special signs.
You might want to install NoLinesHack or ClearHack to remove the "rulers" for even better readability. I think NoLinesHack does the better job, since it removes all lines consequently i every text field. If you descide to try one of those hack, try it atlleast for one day, since to a senior palmer those lines are so familiar that he can't be without them. But, if you try it long enough, you will understand why I don't like those lines!
All Fonts in DateBk5 with NoLinesHack activated. And on the
right with lines.
If you don't like a sign or letter and you can explain what you don't like and maybe even what I should change, please write me about it:erich.kupferschmid@gmx.ch . Don't tell me that you like "Times" better, since I won't change the whole font.
I used Pilot Font Editor (for Windows) v1.2 by Sergey Menshikov to create these fonts.
(c) copyright by
Erich Kupferschmid, erich.kupferschmid@gmx.ch
Please
redistribute the swiz Font Set only in the zip-file as is, with this file included. The fonts
are free.