Thread: Font Problems
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Old 03-15-2008, 11:18 AM   #29
delphidb96
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Originally Posted by tompe View Post
The handling of many fonts seems to be buggy. As I see it there is no need to have a limit on the number of fonts you can add other than lazy or bad programmers or programmers with a deadline. But it seems to me that it should not take more time programming something that handles many fonts if you use good libraries.
I've got six font families installed. That comes out to 4.44MB of data. That means someone with 27 font families is going to have much of the internal memory sucked up by those fonts. Not a great idea considering that the Cybook doesn't allow the display of but one font at a time.

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