Symbian3/SDK/Source/GUID-92A4F66E-252D-5C90-AE59-1B1991002D7B.dita
author Dominic Pinkman <dominic.pinkman@nokia.com>
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:00:49 +0100
changeset 13 48780e181b38
parent 0 89d6a7a84779
permissions -rw-r--r--
Week 28 contribution of SDK documentation content. See release notes for details. Fixes bugs Bug 1897 and Bug 1522.

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<concept xml:lang="en" id="GUID-92A4F66E-252D-5C90-AE59-1B1991002D7B"><title>Installing a Font Rasterizer DLL</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody><p>The <xref href="GUID-416A3756-B5D5-5BCD-830E-2371C5F6B502.dita">Font Store</xref> automatically loads rasterizer DLLs from <filepath>\sys\bin\</filepath> on all drives at startup. The search path is soft to hard ( Y:, X:, W:, ..., C:, B:, A:, Z:) and if two or more files have the same name the first one found is used. This means that files in the ROM (Z:) can be replaced with files on user drives. </p> <p>Rasterizers are identified by their signatures: the second UID is <codeph>KUidOpenFontRasterizerValue</codeph> and they have the extension <filepath>.DLL</filepath>. </p> <p>To install a font rasterizer DLL: </p> <ul><li id="GUID-05B1DCC7-616E-518D-8E22-7D88BBEBBB75"><p>Copy it into <filepath>\sys\bin\</filepath> on any drive. </p> </li> <li id="GUID-8D9C4F93-8795-597C-80D0-26438AC61317"><p>Restart the device to restart the Font and Bitmap server. </p> <p>Note: there is no way to load a rasterizer without a restart. All rasterizers must be present on the device when the Font and Bitmap Server starts up. </p> </li> </ul> </conbody><related-links><link href="GUID-416A3756-B5D5-5BCD-830E-2371C5F6B502.dita"><linktext>Font Store Component
                Overview</linktext> </link> </related-links></concept>