Advanced Setup

How to customize your swiz fonts
Recommended setups for certain applications
How To Make An Exception for a certain application?

How to customize your swiz fonts:

Following, there are 5 different recommendations how you can set up your swiz fonts. On how to make the setup in FontHack, please read the readmeManual.htm

Standard  (You will only have to install the swiz##.pdb for this setup)
Font will be replaced by:

Standard

swiz##(0) 1
Bold swiz##(0) 2
Large swiz##(1) swizSmall.jpg - 1248 Bytes 3
LrgBold swiz##(2) 4
HRStandard swiz##(3) swizNormal.jpg - 1280 Bytes 5
HRBold swiz##(4) swizBold.jpg - 1290 Bytes 6
HRLarge swiz##(5) swizLarge.jpg - 2020 Bytes 7
HRLrgBold swiz##(6) swizSmall.jpg - 1248 Bytes 8
This setup features:
+good readability (3,5,6,8)
+the SmallFont for all NoteFields (8)
+the SmallFont for HiRes apps as DateBk5 (ListView) or iSilo (3)

Thin (I) (This setup feature the ThinFonts. You will have to install the swiz##thin.pdb in addition to the swiz##.pdb.)
Font will be replaced by:

Standard

swiz##thin(0) 1
Bold swiz##(0) 2
Large swiz##thin(2) 3
LrgBold swiz##(2) 4
HRStandard swiz##thin(1) swizThin.jpg - 1309 Bytes 5
HRBold swiz##(3) swizNormal.jpg - 1280 Bytes 6
HRLarge swiz##thin(3) swizLargeThin.jpg - 1818 Bytes 7
HRLrgBold swiz##(6) swizSmall.jpg - 1248 Bytes 8
This setup features:
=thinner, but less readable (5)
+thinner (7)
-the SmallFont for HiRes apps is too thin (3, no image)
+the SmallFont for all NoteFields (8)

Thin (II) (This setup feature the ThinFonts. You will have to install the swiz##thin.pdb in addition to the swiz##.pdb.)
Font will be replaced by:

Standard

swiz##(0) 1
Bold swiz##(0) 2
Large swiz##thin(2) 3
LrgBold swiz##(2) 4
HRStandard swiz##(3) swizNormal.jpg - 1280 Bytes 5
HRBold swiz##(4) swizBold.jpg - 1290 Bytes 6
HRLarge swiz##thin(3) swizLargeThin.jpg - 1818 Bytes 7
HRLrgBold swiz##(6) swizSmall.jpg - 1248 Bytes 8
This might be the favorite setup of many.
This setup features:
+good readability (5,6,8)
+thinner (7)
-the SmallFont for HiRes apps is too thin (3, no image)
+the SmallFont for all NoteFields (8)

Coservative (I) (This setup feature the ThinFonts. You will have to install the swiz##thin.pdb in addition to the swiz##.pdb.)
Font will be replaced by:

Standard

swiz##thin(0) 1
Bold swiz##(0) 2
Large swiz##thin(2) 3
LrgBold swiz##(1) swizSmall.jpg - 1248 Bytes 4
HRStandard swiz##thin(1) swizThin.jpg - 1309 Bytes 5
HRBold swiz##(3) swizNormal.jpg - 1280 Bytes 6
HRLarge swiz##thin(3) swizLargeThin.jpg - 1818 Bytes 7
HRLrgBold swiz##(5) swizLarge.jpg - 2020 Bytes 8
This is a setup with two normal fonts and two large fonts, but without the small font (which I think is the best).
This setup features:
=thinner, but less readable (5)
+the SmallFont for HiRes apps as DateBk5 (ListView) or iSilo (4)
-no SmallFont for NoteFields (8)

Conservative (II) (This setup feature the ThinFonts. You will have to install the swiz##thin.pdb in addition to the swiz##.pdb.)
Font will be replaced by:

Standard

swiz##(0) 1
Bold swiz##(0) 2
Large swiz##thin(2) 3
LrgBold swiz##(1) swizSmall.jpg - 1248 Bytes 4
HRStandard swiz##(3) swizNormal.jpg - 1280 Bytes 5
HRBold swiz##(4) swizBold.jpg - 1290 Bytes 6
HRLarge swiz##thin(3) swizLargeThin.jpg - 1818 Bytes 7
HRLrgBold swiz##(5) swizLarge.jpg - 2020 Bytes 8
This is the same as 4), but it has boalder normal fonts, wich are better readable. This might be interesting for people with bad eyesight, who cannot read the SmallFont.
This setup features:
+good readability (4,5,6)
+the SmallFont for HiRes apps as DateBk5 (ListView) or iSilo (4)
-no SmallFont for NoteFields (8)

 

Recommended setups for certain applications:

read here, how to make exceptions

ActionNames/Agendus:
-menu-->options-->Preferences-->All Views: check Use Large Fonts, uncheck Use Bold fonts, check HiRes Display
-Go to a note field of an event and choose the small font.
-In the Edit Contact view, I recommend using the standard font (Options-->font)
**Unfortunately, the names are not at all beautiful in the list Adress view. But the rest is quite nice.
**Unfortunately, the 1 day list view also looks not so nice.
**If you have a better setting, let me know.
Alternative:
additionaly to the above you might want to make the following exeptions in FontHack:
LrgBold-->swiz##(1)
HRLrgBold-->swiz##(5)
**This will solve the above mentioned asthetical problems.
**You will loose the ability to use the SmallFont in the NoteField of Agendus!!!

Bonsai (install the swiz##BonsaiSymbols.pdb):
-menu-->options-->Preferences-->Fonts; choose the last font in every field.
**If you stop here, you will see that the Note icon will not be displayed in Bonsai. That's why I've created a workaround specially for this application:
-Install swiz##BonsaiSymbols.pdb.
-Go to FontHack; choose Bonsai from the first PullDown menu.
-Select HRSymbols; then select the forth font (which's name is only boxes) from the second pulldown menu.
-Select Symbols and select the last boxy font (down in the pulldown menu where the swiz fonts are).
**The Setup for Bonsai should now show:
Symbol-->swiz##BonsaiSymbols(0)
HRSymbol-->Symbol
**
This makes that the Symbols in Bonsai only have half the hight as normal; you will see the NoteIcon even if you use the SmallFont (if you have set it up to show in your BonsaiPrefs!)

BugMe:
To display the icons in BugMe properly, you have to use this special setting:
LrgBold-->swiz(1)
HRLrgBold-->swiz(5)
or
LrgBold-->LrgBold
HRLrgBold-->HRLrgBold

CRS Launcher:
If you display Large Icons:
LrgBold-->swiz(1)
HrLrgBold-->swiz(5)
If you display Small Icons:
LrgBold-->swiz(1)
HrLrgBold-->swiz(5)
Std-->swiz(1)
HrStd-->swiz(3)**WARNING** This is not a *good* solution, but the most beautiful, you will see (very little) clutter in the category tabs

DateBk5:
-Go to the second weekly view; choose ViewDisplayOptions from the menu; choose Cond/AltFont.
-In the List view, tap Opt; choose SmallFont.
**Please notice, that events with bold/large/largeBold fonts will not be displayed properly in the List View!
Alternative:
additionaly to the above you might want to make the following exeptions in FontHack:
LrgBold-->swiz##(1)
HRLrgBold-->swiz##(5)
**This will solve the above mentioned asthetical problems in ListView.
**You will loose the ability to use the SmallFont in your DayView and in the NoteFields of DB5!!

MegaLauncher:
Standard-->swiz(1)*
HrStandard-->swiz(3)**WARNING**
*You will have to choose the SMALL font in MegaLauncher (for all views and for the categories)
**WARNING**This is, so the time and date is displayed properly. You will see cluttered text in ALL editfields in MegaLauncher though; you will have some troubles editing text, but since a launcher is not a texteditor, this might not matter!
**TIP**If you display 7 tab categories, you might want to use abreviated names for those

iSilo:
in the menu, choose Display; choose Small font. Very beautiful indeed
!

pedit:
-In the EditView, choose the Large Bold font in the lower right corner.
**Unfortunately, the listView (ver6.20) is not able to display more items than normal, if you display the small font.

ShadowPlan:
-Make sure ShadowPlan hos NO CHECKMARK in the HiResPanel in Prefs!! (or SwitchDash)
-Go to Preferences in ShadowPlan:
-Go to the "HiRes Preferences" panel
-UNCHECK "Use mixed res. mode"
-Go to the "Display Preferences" panel
-Choose the Small font as your normal AND bold font! (If you choose another font, the lines will be too high; this is due to  restrictions in ShadowPlan and the PalmOS)
-Exit and restart SP
**This looks good, takes advantage of the SmallFont, BUT you loose the ability of a bold font!

other applications:
If you know special tricks to set up an application, to make it look specially beautiful with swiz, let me know: erich.kupferschmid@gmx.ch

 

How To Make An Exception for a certain application?
1. Go to your Hackmanager.
2. Enter the FontHack Details screen.
3. Choose the application you want to make an exeption in the first pulldown menu:
exception1.jpg - 28322 Bytes

4.Choose the font in the list, then from the second pulldown menu, choose the font you want it to be replaced with:
exception2.jpg - 23065 Bytes
In this case, for CRSLauncher, the Standard font would stay the standard (OS) font, whereas in other application, it would still be replaced by the swiz font.

 

(c) copyright by Erich Kupferschmid, erich.kupferschmid@gmx.ch
Please redistribute the swiz Font Set only in the zip-file as is, with this file included. The fonts are free.
You can download future versions at www.palmgear.com (enter "swiz" into the searchfield).