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Why does my TrueType font work on some Symbian OS phones and not others?

April 26, 2017font OS phones Symbian TrueType

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Why does my TrueType font work on some Symbian OS phones and not others?

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Symbian has ported the open-source “FreeType” font rasterizer to the Open Font System, enabling rendering of TrueType fonts. However the FreeType plug-in is an optional component, and therefore may not be present or supported by a handset manufacturer on a particular phone. Symbian provides a patch for the missing rasterizer on Symbian OS v7.0-based phones. This is available from the Symbian Developer Network (DevNet), see heading “Support for TrueType Fonts” at http://www.symbian.com/developer/development/syslibs.html. This patch has also been shown to work on Symbian OS v6.1 based phones, but has not been tested on later versions of Symbian OS.