Fonts (legacy)

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Adding Fonts

In order to take advantage of the loadable font functionality of podzilla (and possibly other future applications), you will need some fonts on your iPod (obviously). Here are some steps to help you out.

  1. Find some of your favorite bitmap (.bdf or .pcf) fonts. (if you chose a .pcf, skip to step 4)
  2. In your microwindows source tree you will find convbdf.c. Compile it.1
  3. Use the resulting binary1 to convert your .bdf font into a .fnt: convbdf -f 6x12.bdf
  4. Copy your font file into /usr/share/fonts/ on your ipod, creating the directories if needed.
  5. Create (or add a line to) /usr/share/fonts/font.lst containing the filename, name and size.2
  6. If you have more fonts to add, go back to step 1 (you can probably skip over the recompiling(unless you *really* want to)).
  7. Reboot your iPod into podzilla, browse to Settings -> Font, select your favoritist font.

1 Linux x86 bin, Source

2 The size doesn't really matter for bitmap fonts since they only come in one size. However, if you are missing the font specified, the size helps denote which of the 2 built-in fonts will be used.

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Examples

/usr/share/fonts/font.lst : 

# [file]		(Name)		<size>
[6x12.fnt]		(6x12 utf8)	<12>
[burrito.pcf]		(Burrito)	<11>
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Links

Rockbox fonts (http://www.rockbox.org/fonts/)

Jonrelay's .fnt collection

BleuLlama's .fnt selection (http://patsy.cis.rit.edu/Image/font/ipod/yorglefonts.tar.gz)

Espy Sans font

Chixa font

Information for adding fonts to iPL (http://ipodlinux.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2636|Useful)

Family Guy font

futureyankee's Smashing Pumpkins fonts, as well as a Smashing Pumpkins theme

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