Font Store Component

The Font Store is encapsulated by the Font and Bitmap Server. It represents all of the fonts stored as files in the file system. Font files may be of the native Symbian bitmap format or they may require rasterising into bitmaps. Font rasterisers are ECOM plug-ins to the Font Store.

The CBR package name for the Font Store component is graphics_fntstore.

• Font Store Component Overview
  The Font Store contains all of the fonts and typefaces on a phone. It is encapsulated by the Font and Bitmap server which provides a client-side class that applications use to find which fonts are available and to find fonts to match their requirements.
• Linked Fonts Guide
  The linked font feature allows the creation of linked typefaces using characters from two or more existing typefaces. Once created, linked typefaces are available to all users. Application developers do not need to know whether a font is a linked font or a real font.
• Font Store Tutorials
  
• Creating a Linked Typeface
  The API that allows the linked typeface to be specified is for use by device creators. It is primarily designed for the creation of device system fonts. The platform security capability ECapabilityWriteDeviceData is required to register linked typefaces. ECapabilityReadDeviceData is required to fetch linked typeface information from the Font and Bitmap Server.