Comments on: Smooth… (Part 2: Tweaking DejaVu Sans for Zaurus)

By: Jochen

Jochen — Thu, 25 May 2006 18:50:18 +0000

I have just installed the DejaVu fonts from your package (Fonts_BigPack-DejaVu_Sans_Compressed_Smaller.tar.gz).
They are looking quite good but I have one annoying problem with the fonts.
Capitalized german umlauts (ÄÖÜ) are displayed without the dots. They are not distinguishable from AOU. It seems that the line height is too small to display the dots. I think that must be repaired in the vector fonts.
Can you confirm the problem and correct it?

Thank you.

By: MB Zaurus

MB Zaurus — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 02:52:45 +0000

Ah, that seems to explain the problems I was having with neocal and the help browser… I had installed your DejaVu fonts–they really look much better–and sometime later I noticed that neocal would consistently freeze the GUI, and the HelpBrowser seemd to fail (but as I recall, it didn’t cause the GUI to freeze).

I’m using an SL-6000, with the original Sharp ROM.

Thanks,

Mark

By: Andre

Andre — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:39:29 +0000

Well, E.J., which fontpack did you use? Doug was talking about the Calibri font, which I removed. I have no problems with my fonts on Cacko on my 750.
Which ROM do you use? What Zaurus?

By: E.J.

E.J. — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 20:59:45 +0000

Like Doug, these fonts are at the root of my problems with Help Browser and NeoCal freezing the UI. I’d recommned that anyone *not* hellbent on aesthetics leave them alone. If I had known, I don’t think I would have let beauty trump functionality.

By: Antikx

Antikx — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 06:54:19 +0000

Wow. I can’t believe what a difference your work has made. Good job!

By: Andre

Andre — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 13:47:08 +0000

Hi Doug,

the BigPacks include more font sizes. Since the fonts are essentially bitmap fonts and not vector fonts, they tend to be really big. So, that’s why I made available two packs of each font. I’ve you are doing word processing on your Zaurus, the BigPack is for probably better suiting, since it also includes font sizes that are unusual for normal PDA use.

Also, I don’t have any problems with the C*libri font. However, these MS fonts have been removed from this site on request. So, if you have any problems with the font just use the DejaVu font and extract it to /home/QtPalmtop/lib/fonts.

Regards,
Andre

By: Doug Fisher

Doug Fisher — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:56:30 +0000

Hi Andre,

I really like these fonts, but I have some questions for you:

How do you install them? I’m interested in the DejaVu Sans Compressed. I assume you just tar -xvf into your /home/QtPalmtop/lib/fonts directory.

What is the difference between these files?
BigPack-DejaVu_Sans_Compressed_Smaller.tar.gz
DejaVu_Sans_Compressed_Smaller.tar.gz

I already have the Calibri font set installed and have had no end of troubles with:
- alarm messages from the Calendar application (seems to lockup the UI)
- running the help viewer (same)
- changing date/time

Thanks,
Doug

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