FontHack123 V3.2
FontHack 123 is a font substitution program similar to FontHack Plus. (C) 1998-2001 Sergey Menshikov http://www.sergem.net. Although FontHack is copyrighted, it is absolutely free.
Please deactivate and remove previous version of FontHack 123 before installing new version!!!
Delete old FontHack and AppFontData.pdb from your palm\user\backup directory as well before installing a new version!!!
International Fonts
Interpilot - Fonts, Keyboard and Graffiti for Greek, Turkish, Czech, Polski, Croatian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Russian and Ukrainian in multiple encodings.
Editing Fonts
Pilot Font Editor - the original PalmOS Font Editor for Windows.
Requirements
FontHack 123 works on PalmOS devices up to and including version 4.0 (If the system version is unknown to FontHack, it will complain and refuse to operate).
You need HackMaster, X-Master, EVPlugBase or TealMaster for this hack to operate. Please download and register them if you did not yet. I would recommend agains HackMaster as it has a "fifteen visits" bug - it will die on the fifteenth time you start it with some hack being active all the time.
If you have some other Hack platform, you have to tell me to enable FontHack123 for it.
Operation
Visit Hack configuration screen in HackMaster, select specific app or "All"
and specify fonts to substitute.
Press Save button
Activate the hack in HackMaster by checking the checkbox.
Fonts can be downloaded on http://www.palmgear.com
(search fonts) or visit links on FontHack123 page.
Contact
FontHack 123 (C) 1998-2001 Sergey Menshikov
http://www.sergem.net
Release History
FontHack123 V3.2 Changes
- TealMaster compatibility
- Improved check if font database was deleted (I'd upgrade if I were you)
- Reversed change below - all apps now applies to everything startable, not only apps in the list
FontHack123 V3.1 Changes
- Popup favorites and Preferences bug fixed
- "All apps" now does not apply to apps not displayed in list
FontHack123 V3.0 Changes
- Does not allow deleting itself or font databases while active
- Checks consistency of Application-Fonts database on activation
- Fixes inconsistencies if Application-Fonts database on each visit of FontHack's setup screen
- Now accounts for X-Master (did not work on that before)
- Supports PalmOS 4.0
- Shows samples of actual fonts in font selection list
- Sorts applications and fonts in respective selection lists
- Allows to explicitly specify system font (so you can say: all apps to use font X but Address Book that is to use standard)
FontHack123 V2.2 Changes
- Now accounts for EVPlugBase (crashed on that before)
- Will refuse to operate on OS above 3.5 (insurance)
- Warns users about potential crashes because of different font size unknown to some apps.
- Now it account for possible .prc file of type Font. It skips them now. (crashed on that
before)
FontHack123 V2 Changes
- A complete rewrite.
- The original 123 was an example of _how_one_should_not_ write programs =-)
- The list of PalmOS versions and hardware is expanded to include V, Vx, IIIx, IIIe, VII
and HandSpring =-)
- After reset, FontHack123-2 can now be reactivated automatically (answer yes to
"reinstall all hacks" question after reset)
- "All apps" still has priority over a particular app setting if the setting is
"none".Otherwise, app setting has a priority.
- No silly "100 apps" or "200 apps" limitations.
- The code is actially simpler to understand (to those wo cared to have a look at the
source).
- New source code is now available at http://www.sergem.net
- Tall Fonts - see what you were missing because Palm guys (no blame intended) left extra
bit row for accented characters. Bigger fonts on the same piece of real estate!
- TallFontsNew.pdb - Palm V, IIIx, VII, IIIe system characters fixed and zero is not
crossed now.
Source Code Note
4cut is a silly program that cuts 4 leading bytes from any file. You do not really need it.