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About the Open Font system


Overview

EPOC Release 5 supports a new plug-in architecture that allows it to use font files in any format. A particular font format is supported by writing a DLL to recognise and read font files and provide bitmaps of characters. The process of converting a character description held in a font file into a bitmap is called rasterization.

Several new functions have been added to the CFbsFont class to support the Open Font system. These functions allow FBSERV to access the information stored in Open Font system fonts.

In addition this documentation covers several of the new Open Font System classes. These classes define the new character metric and typeface information stored in the open-font system.

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