Font files provide the pixel patterns used for drawing characters.
Symbian OS has its own font store file format (gdr
).
There are two parts to the process of producing a gdr
file:
Fonts in Adobes Bitmap Distribution Format
(bdf
files) are converted using the fnttran
tool: see Bitmap distribution format files.
Font specifications are coded as a gd
text file:
see Font definition file. This file type can be compiled into a font store file, using the
fnttran
tool.
The method available in v5 of converting fsc
font
formats into a gdf
file using the fontcomp
tool
is now deprecated.