Fonts Overview

Article
06/30/2006

Microsoft® Windows® CE .NET supports TrueType and raster font technologies, but only one font technology can be used on a specified platform. Once you choose TrueType or raster font technology when the platform is designed, you cannot change technologies with an application. TrueType is the default in Windows CE, but you can implement raster technology in your platform by adding the Raster Fonts Support feature from the Platform Builder catalog when you are designing your platform.

The Fonts features for Windows CE provide you with a choice of 60 different fonts. A font is a collection of glyphs that share a common design and is characterized by its typeface, style, and size. Some fonts, such as Symbol, Webdings, and Wingding, provide special characters that are not available in other fonts. Other fonts, such the SimSun, SC_Song, MingLiU, MS Ming, MS Gothic, and Gulim (GL_CE) fonts, provide support for East Asian languages. If you want to reduce the size of your platform, make sure that you add only a limited number of fonts to your platform.

The following Font features are provided:

Arial (Subset 1_30)	Arial Black	Arial Bold	Arial Bold Italic
Arial Italic	Comic Sans MS	Comic Sans MS Bold	Courier New (Subset 1_30)
Courier New Bold	Courier New Bold Italic	Courier New Italic	Georgia
Georgia Bold	Georgia Bold Italic	Georgia Italic	Impact
Kino	MSLogo	Symbol	Tahoma (Subset 1_07)
Tahoma Bold	Times New Roman (Subset 1_30)	Times New Roman Bold	Times New Roman Bold Italic
Times New Roman Italic	Trebuchet MS	Trebuchet MS Bold	Trebuchet MS Bold Italic
Trebuchet MS Italic	Verdana	Verdana Bold	Verdana Bold Italic
Verdana Italic	Webdings	Wingding	SimSun and NSimSun
SimSun and NSimSun (Subset 2_50)	SimSun and NSimSun (Subset 2_60)	SimSun and NSimSun (Subset 2_70)	SimSun and NSimSun (Subset 2_80)
SimSun and NSimSun (Subset 2_90)	SC_Song	MingLiU and PMingLiU	MingLiU and PMingLiU (Subset 2_70)
MingLiU and PMingLiU (Subset 2_80)	MingLiU and PMingLiU (Subset 2_90)	MS Ming	MS Gothic, MS PGothic, and MS UI Gothic
MS Gothic, MS PGothic, and MS UI Gothic (Subset 1_50)	MS Gothic, MS PGothic, and MS UI Gothic (Subset 1_60)	MS Gothic, MS PGothic, and MS UI Gothic (Subset 1_70)	MS Gothic, MS PGothic, and MS UI Gothic (Subset 1_80)
MS Gothic, MS PGothic, and MS UI Gothic (Subset 1_90)	MS Gothic and MS PGothic (Subset 30)	MS Gothic and MS PGothic (Subset 30_1_19)	Gulim (GL_CE)
Gulim and GulimChe (Subset 1_30)	Gulim and GulimChe (Subset 1_40)	Gulim and GulimChe (Subset 1_50)	Gulim and GulimChe (Subset 1_60)

All platforms include the Tahoma (Subset 1_07) font by default.

The following table shows operating system design information for the Fonts features.

Element	Information
Dependencies	The Microsoft ClearType® display technology requires support from the display driver, such as that provided by the FLAT sample display driver.
Hardware considerations	None.

The following table shows the components and modules that implement the Fonts features.

Item	Module	Component
Fonts API	gwes	mgrast, mgrast2, mgtt
Fonts	fonts	tahoma_1_07, cour_1_30, times_1_30, arial_1_30, symbol, timesbd , impact, trebucbd, courbd, kino, tahomabd, trebucbi, arialbd, courbi, trebucit, arialbi, couri, mslogo, verdana, ariali, georgia, msming, verdanab, arialk, georgiab, sunfon, verdanai, comic, georgiai, timesbi, verdanaz, comicbd, georgiaz, timesi, webdings, gl_ce, trebuc, wingding, msgothic30, msgothic30_1_19, msgothic_1_50, msgothic_1_60, msgothic_1_70, msgothic_1_80, msgothic_1_90, msgothic, simsun_2_50, simsun_2_60, simsun_2_70, simsun_2_80, simsun_2_90, simsun, mingliu_2_70, mingliu_2_80, mingliu_2_90, mingliu, gulim_1_30, gulim_1_40, gulim_1_50, gulim_1_60
Font compression for East Asian locales	gwes	decompdrv
Font Aliasing	gwes	mgalias