If you are using this option for Palm handheld, BookDesigner has to know what fonts are installed in your Palm. This operation takes several minutes and you have to perform it only ones. The operation can be performed in two ways: either by extracting the fonts from your handheld or by the direct font module loading into BookDesigner.
how to get the fonts from handheld
1. Find the file GetFonts.prc in the Tools subdirectory of BookDesigner.
2. Install GetFonts.prc on your Palm handheld.
3. Run GetFonts and press "Save fonts".
4. Run Palm Desktop program on your PC and then press the following buttons: HotSync->Custom->System->Change...->Handheld overwrites Desktop->OK->Done
5. Make HotSync
6. Find in \Palm\yourname\backup directory on your PC the file fonts.pdb
7. Press "font manager" button.
8. Drag&Drop the file fonts.pdb to "new fonts found" window (or open it using "load new font" button) and the corresponding fonts (usually four) will appear in the "new fonts found" window.
9. Clicking on the font names in the window "new fonts found", choose the font suitable for you (you will see the book paragraphs preview in the "Palm hyphenation preview" window).
10. Press "add" button and the chosen font will appear in the "installed fonts" window. If you want to install more than one font, just repeat the operations 9, 10.
11. Close "Palm font manager" window and press "make book" button.
12. Load the newly created book to your handheld, run your reading program, load the book to it and choose the proper font.
how to get the fonts from font modules
If you have the font module file (*.prc, *.pdb, or *.pft) from which the fonts have been installed on your handheld, you can install this module on BookDesigner as follows.
1. Press "font manager" button.
2. Drag&Drop the font module file to "new fonts found" window (or open it using "load new font" button).
3. Clicking on the font names in the window "new fonts found", choose the font suitable for you (you will see the book paragraphs preview in the "Palm hyphenation preview" window).
4. Press "add" button and the chosen font will appear in the "installed fonts" window. If you want to install more than one font, just repeat the operations 3, 4.
5. Close "Palm font manager" window and press "make book" button.
6. Load the newly created book to your handheld, run your reading program, load the book to it and choose the proper font.
Comment 1. Sony Clie high-resolution devices use the special font mapping technology which increases twice the font size for some fonts. If your font is of this type, probably you will need to play with "screen width" value to provide proper hyphenations for the chosen font.
Comment 2. If you are using MobiPocket Reader program, uncheck "Display margins" and "Enable Mobi Type" in its "Settings".