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What font formats can be supported in the Open Font System?

April 26, 2017font formats supported system

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What font formats can be supported in the Open Font System?

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The Open Font System supports all font types through plug-in rasterizers. However, there is no guarantee that any rasterizer will be pre-installed on a particular phone. The FreeType plug-in provides support for TrueType fonts. A number of other 3rd parties rasterizer plug-ins to the Open Font System are either available or in development. These will support a range of other font types. Symbian also supports a native font format. Symbian’s “GDR” fonts are produced using the FNTTRAN tool from slightly modified BDF fonts. Therefore if you have a font in BDF format it is possible to convert it to a form that can be used on Symbian OS devices.